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On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> On (2003/06/18 13:53), Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> > With that said,  I will also add, that I will take an incredibly
> > dim view of anybody who tries to add more gunk in this area, and
> > that I am perfectly willing to derail unionfs and nullfs (or pretty
> > much anything else on the list above) if that is what it takes to
> > clean up the buffer cache.
>
> Makes sense.  After all, these filesystems are only just now recovering
> from "we can fix these later" breakage introduced years ago.  What's a
> few more years without 'em? :-)

'K, this kinda hurts ... there are a growing # of us that are actually
using unionfs and nullfs on production systems ... not small servers, but
several thousand processes with over 100 union mounts ... other then the
vnode leak stuff that David has been investigating, I've yet to see
anything that I would considering warranting the 'DO NOT USE / CAVEAT
EMPTOR' that is in the man pages ... :(