Issues using unionfs and vnode backed disks
Jacques Marnweck
jacques at powertrip.co.za
Sun May 2 16:13:54 PDT 2004
Hi,
I'm experiencing some weird issues using unionfs with vnode file backed
disks under FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 on a Intel Celeron 2.4GHz box with
512Mb RAM. I have similar setups using FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE boxes which
are in production using vnconfig etc.
# df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a 6.2G 57M 5.7G 1% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/ad0s1g 52G 8.1G 39G 17% /home
/dev/ad0s1f 1037M 934M 20M 98% /tmp
/dev/ad0s1d 8.3G 2.1G 5.6G 27% /usr
/dev/ad0s1e 8.3G 45M 7.6G 1% /var
/dev/md0c 2.0G 142M 1.7G 8% /home/jails/base
/dev/md1c 5.1G 173M 4.5G 4% /home/jails/zzzz.co.za
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /home/jails/zzzz.co.za/dev
<below>:/home/jails/base 7.1G 2.2G 4.5G 33% /home/jails/zzzz.co.za
Basically how I do jail()'ed virtual machines is that I first create a
base disk image say base.vn which all the jails get so I only have to maintain
one base installation which can be shared amongst multiple jails.
Another bug I noticed which had similar side effects was where I had /usr/ports
mounted below /home/jails/base/usr/ports and from the jail()'ed virtual
machine I typed 'make install clean' to install a port, the box had a
deadlock.
>From reading various posts here, I'm assuming that unionfs under FreeBSD
5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 should have less issues, and should not cause the
problems I'm experiencing?
Also I've tested this a couple of times today. Who is maintaining the
unionfs code, as I would like to chat to him/her.
Regards
--jm
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