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From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>
To: Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: UNIONFS Stability
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:30:15PM -0700, Rus Foster wrote:
> Hi All,
> How stable is unionfs? Reading the man page for mount_unionfs its says
> that its not. Is that still true or is it better on 5.x? ATM I'm running
> 4.8

mount -o union is very stable for me. note that this is not quite the same
as mount_unionfs. i am using it on 5.1.