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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:09:09 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
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Subject: Re: Unionfs and nullfs question
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On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Vulpes Velox wrote:

> I eventually decided to go with doing a mount_nfs -o union for it :) 
> From one of the conversations I found previously, this is suppose to be 
> safer than doing doing a regular mount_unionfs.

I use nfs to 'replace' nullfs for viewing the lower file system of 
unionfs's ... I find that, under load, I get *alot* of timeouts of the nfs 
mounts, with 4 nfsd's running ... something you might want to watch out 
for ...
  >

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