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Subject: Re: Compressed FS
To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki)
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> I see... But I had the impression that unions and portals work pretty well
> under -current - I used them several times and they didn't burn the house
> down :-)
> 
> Current's LINT file contains information about these FSs being broken. Is
> it still true? 

Yes, especially on creates/appends/writes to unioned files.

I believe the portal stuff is actually fairly stable, if not much
used.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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