Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 21:58:53 +0300 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> To: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>, Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is unionfs usable on -CURRENT? Message-ID: <9e847496-ffbf-dd5d-747d-046ba8295701@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <5E49401A-E713-452A-B255-234C42906DA9@bway.net> References: <3a040dd0-5017-755a-1ce4-bc855146c404@FreeBSD.org> <20180606135204.GA44323@in-addr.com> <5E49401A-E713-452A-B255-234C42906DA9@bway.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --AZYUjmRGbfdbYlNab6rJCcBw0lFDccmmt Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="iFjKZHHuzuMUpjOBekOXhDuit8gpkYLdw"; protected-headers="v1" From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: lev@FreeBSD.org To: Charles Sprickman <spork@bway.net>, Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <9e847496-ffbf-dd5d-747d-046ba8295701@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Is unionfs usable on -CURRENT? References: <3a040dd0-5017-755a-1ce4-bc855146c404@FreeBSD.org> <20180606135204.GA44323@in-addr.com> <5E49401A-E713-452A-B255-234C42906DA9@bway.net> In-Reply-To: <5E49401A-E713-452A-B255-234C42906DA9@bway.net> --iFjKZHHuzuMUpjOBekOXhDuit8gpkYLdw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 06.06.2018 21:49, Charles Sprickman wrote: >>> "man mount_unionfs" is very scary. Is is still true? Maybe, here are >>> some other workarounds to have one directory with static data on R/O = FS >>> and transient data on R/W FS? >>> >>> Unfortunately, "net-mgmt/unifi5" want to put all working data directl= y >>> to its installation directory, which resides on R/O FS of NanoBSD ima= ge. >> >> I believe the warnings are still at least partly true. The usual >> suggestion is to use "mount -o union" instead of "mount -t unionfs". >> "mount -o union" doesn't have the unionfs issues >=20 > Just chiming in as a casual observer here, but that=E2=80=99s extremely= confusing. > I think most people would assume =E2=80=9C-o fstype=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9C= -t fstype=E2=80=9D would basically > do the same thing. Is there any reason to keep the broken version read= ily > accessible? "-o union" is not "-t union", it is not unionfs, completely separate feature, FS-independent, but limited (you can not overlay nested directory, only FS root). --=20 // Lev Serebryakov --iFjKZHHuzuMUpjOBekOXhDuit8gpkYLdw-- --AZYUjmRGbfdbYlNab6rJCcBw0lFDccmmt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEE+W0coLX0MYtnSzMK6rA8WL/cR48FAlsYLu1fFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEY5 NkQxQ0EwQjVGNDMxOEI2NzRCMzMwQUVBQjAzQzU4QkZEQzQ3OEYACgkQ6rA8WL/c R480Ig//VzqwR73e9Z93SiVYrqdFBUy+fzhkhHqZbrEMpPN/UkfZLqxx8MKk4MRL K1AqW7wcIM3Xc45y18j+TI6ry+98k2J8Xay2/2bGejWsNFXLVywr58IoLB1LdZPW 6TRdawjBGi8t8yXj7ZJ35ufbzyFomBuOWr1CA9TnAuMIxUeiu3EyqvdmxkiGrfS1 rxy3dQFVe2Pv1gjLLOQNr5HuBehUPNzCGW0uTn7setL/Y7gkWdwLKqZyw6Jr/mMx Bx0lgCZwWnrhwjsnMIX5WGHBH6u7os/v7g6GdZz2O9XhhuQ4zOVsiO9rxW5J4GsZ QOCykyxGhfZpd5YmSYe7L1Z96f64o8MhxsqZJu5vXT+rdqe9oGZfi2jJjJqrqF7N BeuSJy5Ti22ZCkd19omJn4JBax5lw1RZqHzFeRXNU2CrT5c37A5Zh8Ghl7elO0D8 Val521DA2mo/z+kwjXwQvL8Hv764dY4PogcUtBT6Ro81dS9eM98klD65EDlKPOQD d9D/gyOdSw5JMk3KFVZGoNOfwTP5xRk2GR0MjFAd32QpWQf0pCunAA29jYJxIthC OjzEI/Y7Z8C6GsTkWwwn/+pCuuimsAsWCqWvZfW/bkNCB8uKxC2i0qEXU3kAPjll MchAxLj8kZSFfLodgKRilZujxhvHgO/YcIA2Fdw/QJJnVBYNuUg= =lduh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AZYUjmRGbfdbYlNab6rJCcBw0lFDccmmt--
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