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Date:      Sun, 06 Mar 2005 09:36:57 +0100
From:      Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc>
To:        Denis Shaposhnikov <dsh@neva.vlink.ru>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: unionfs 5.4
Message-ID:  <1DE178D508C1D70D1B5F9E87@cc-171.int.t-online.fr>
In-Reply-To: <87mzth18e2.fsf@neva.vlink.ru>
References:  <87is46kzk1.fsf@neva.vlink.ru> <41C26F23F7DF023CB3DF35C5@cc-171.int.t-online.fr> <20050305151903.GC26240@hub.freebsd.org> <87mzth18e2.fsf@neva.vlink.ru>

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+-le 06/03/2005 11:33 +0300, Denis Shaposhnikov =E9crivait :
|>>>>> "Kris" =3D=3D Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
| BTW, from man mount_nullfs:
|=20
| 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.
|=20
| So you can't suggest to use nullfs instead of unionfs, because "is
| well-documented to be broken".

Well, nullfs and unionfs have the same BUGS section :-)
OTOH, nullfs has never panic'ed me, whereas unionfs has.

--=20
Mathieu Arnold



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