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Date:      Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:29:31 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au>
Cc:        Mohammad Nayyer Zubair <mzubair@ic.sunysb.edu>
Subject:   Re: ideas about a unioning file system
Message-ID:  <3EF7EFCB.4A4BACB8@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.SOL.4.56.0306191803340.16978@sparky.ic.sunysb.edu> <1056423804.48266.54.camel@gurney.reilly.home>

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Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 08:15, Mohammad Nayyer Zubair wrote:
> > Has anyone extensively used freebsd unionfs? From a system/network
> > administrator or from a kernel developer standpoint, what do you like
> > about it and what you dont like about it?
> 
> I'm using unionfs thusly:
> 
> # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> /dev/vinum/vinum0       /usr            ufs     rw,union        0
> 2

Actually, this is the union mount option, which isn't the same
thing as unionfs.


> > Out of the previous efforts at a unioning file system like the Sun's TFS,
> > 3DFS, Plan 9 and FreeBSD unionfs itself, which fs do you think came close
> > to an ideal unioning file system?
> 
> What's wrong with the one that we have?

It's a mount option, not a file system.  8-).

-- Terry



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