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In article <20030524190051.R598@hub.org>, scrappy@hub.org wrote:
>  What version of FreeBSD are you running?  There were several fixes put
>in just after 4.8 was released, one of which dealt with freeing up vnodes,
>since I was hitting similar problems on our server where we're using
>unionfs ...

If you're on stable, I suggest reading the man page for mount_union very
carefully, especially the BUGS section.

Be verrrry careful, you're in dangerous territory.

(Yes, I've hurt myself on that.)

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