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Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 17:28:08 +0600
From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: Status of unionfs in -STABLE
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 03:24:21AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:54:59PM +0600, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Recently I've began to consider making some use of unionfs in
> > (semi-)production environment.  Can someone aware of its current status
> > in -STABLE comment a bit on this subject?
> > 
> > Probably any information would be appreciated.
> 
> Unchanged since the other times this topic has been discussed recently
> - see the archives for extensive discussion.  (Summary: it's possible
> to avoid panicking if you carefully restrict the activities you do
> with unionfs, but expect panics and possible filesystem corruption
> while discovering those limits).

Thanks, I'll investigate further.

./danfe