From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 08:33:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C751A16A4CE; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 08:33:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from deliver.smtp.vlink.ru (alias.rigel.internal.vlink.ru [217.23.88.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 522FA43D4C; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 08:33:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dsh@vlink.ru) Received: from smtp.smtp.vlink.ru (clamav.smtp.vlink.ru [192.168.4.1]) by deliver.smtp.vlink.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CB69457A4; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:33:10 +0300 (MSK) Received: from neva.vlink.ru (neva.vlink.ru [217.107.252.29]) by smtp.smtp.vlink.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7DF456B2; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:33:10 +0300 (MSK) Received: from neva.vlink.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by neva.vlink.ru (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j268X9Ba028658; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:33:09 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from dsh@vlink.ru) Received: (from dsh@localhost) by neva.vlink.ru (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j268X9Z8028655; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:33:09 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from dsh@vlink.ru) X-Comment-To: Kris Kennaway To: Kris Kennaway References: <87is46kzk1.fsf@neva.vlink.ru> <41C26F23F7DF023CB3DF35C5@cc-171.int.t-online.fr> <87sm3ajj8s.fsf@neva.vlink.ru> <20050305151903.GC26240@hub.freebsd.org> From: Denis Shaposhnikov Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:33:09 +0300 In-Reply-To: <20050305151903.GC26240@hub.freebsd.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:19:03 +0000") Message-ID: <87mzth18e2.fsf@neva.vlink.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Mathieu Arnold Subject: Re: unionfs 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 08:33:11 -0000 >>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway writes: Kris> But it works, and doesn't panic the system. unionfs is Kris> well-documented to be broken, and this is unlikely to change in Kris> the near future. That's a recent regression, unionfs works fine on FreeBSD sagitta.internal.vlink.ru 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #1: Wed Dec 1 17:39:09 MSK 2004 dsh@rigel.internal.vlink.ru:/var/FreeBSD/obj/var/FreeBSD/src/sys/SAGITTA i386 And if unionfs panic the system on 5.4 too, I think it can't be STABLE at all. BTW, from man mount_nullfs: BUGS THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET. So you can't suggest to use nullfs instead of unionfs, because "is well-documented to be broken". -- DSS5-RIPE DSS-RIPN 2:550/5068@fidonet 2:550/5069@fidonet mailto:dsh@vlink.ru http://neva.vlink.ru/~dsh/