unionfs 5.4

Mathieu Arnold mat at mat.cc
Sun Mar 6 00:37:04 PST 2005


+-le 06/03/2005 11:33 +0300, Denis Shaposhnikov écrivait :
|>>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
| BTW, from man mount_nullfs:
| 
| BUGS
|      THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T
| WORK)      AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM.  USE AT
|      YOUR OWN RISK.  BEWARE OF DOG.  SLIPPERY WHEN WET.
| 
| So you can't suggest to use nullfs instead of unionfs, because "is
| well-documented to be broken".

Well, nullfs and unionfs have the same BUGS section :-)
OTOH, nullfs has never panic'ed me, whereas unionfs has.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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