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From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
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Subject: the current status of nullfs, unionfs
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Hello!

The respected manual contain dire warnings, but the Google search suggests, 
the situation is not *that* gloomy.

For example, according to http://kerneltrap.org/node/652 , nullfs was used on 
Bento-cluster two years ago in 2003.

Is anybody working on this file-systems? Any plans, rumours?

What about the `union' option to regular mounts? Is that safe to use?

Thanks!

	-mi