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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:59:30 +0100 (CET)
From:      Attila Nagy <bra@fsn.hu>
To:        Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: union fs
Message-ID:  <20011115115819.P18123-100000@scribble.fsn.hu>
In-Reply-To: <E164I7u-0008U2-00@pampa.cs.huji.ac.il>

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Hello,

> I've been running several dataless/diskless machines with union-fs
> (for the /etc stuff) with no - apparent - problems for several months
> now, so i was wondering if the commnet about it being buggy still
> holds?
Try to run a program on a union-mounted FS which uses sendfile() to
transfer data (the easiest to try is the webfsd from the ports tree). It
will send garbage, collected from various places from your harddrive.

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