Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 20:36:29 -0600 From: Dan Potter <shun@mail.utexas.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Unionfs fixes (was: when is 4.0 up for release ?) Message-ID: <20000307203629.B4266@industrial-strength.net>
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I recall waay back on Mar 07 when Bill Fumerola wrote: > Someone else will probably point this out to you, but: > > BUGS > THIS FILESYSTEM 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. Yes, I understand... Rome was not built in a day though, we have to fix it one bug at a time if it's going to get fixed. ^_^; I guess not as many people use it as I thought, though. Also, the reason I posted my concerns is that this is the -current list and I figured if anywhere, this might be the place. It seems like half the fs' man pages have that disclaimer at the bottom =) I guess my next question is: is there a better list to take the discussion of fixing up unionfs (e.g., hackers? fs?), and is there any decent amount of information somewhere that I could use to get up to speed on VFS in FreeBSD and such? The functionality would be very useful at work, and so far it seems to be working fine minus a few hiccups. Because of that, it's somewhat likely that I could spend time getting paid to work on it =). So I guess if there's anyone who's interested in cleaning up after the dog at the moment (see above disclaimer from the man page =) it'd probably be me. Specifically I'd like to see the operation cleaned up if possible so that it's more truly transparent -- like no shadow directories, special files (e.g., device nodes) working, etc; if I can get my brain around it I might be able to work on some of that. I've studied the VFS model in Linux a bit, and BSD's seems somewhat similar, at least at first glance. It doesn't look too hard. Famous last words I guess... =) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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