Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:59:49 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@Haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Subject: Re: Union and Portal FSs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971128145747.5304B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <19971127085717.19775@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > As Brian J. McGovern wrote: > > > Just out of curiousity, how "decayed" are the Union and Portal > > filesystems,and, more importantly, is anyone working on them? > > Kazu did quite some work on unionfs, and i think it's basically usable > these days. There are still some odds in it (which i'm not sure of > whether they can be easily resolved), like an open attempt with write > intent will yield an EROFS if the lower layer is a read/only > filesystem. > > UFS union mounts ("mount -o union /dev/fd0 /somewhere") seem to have a > different set of problems. I've got this one basically to work, in an > attempt to mount a writable floppy over a read/only CD-ROM /etc, but > when i recently tried under -current with a lower-layer NFS, the > writes went through into the lower layer, ick. :( > > No idea on portals... At least some time ago portalfs worked well enough for tcp connections. Haven't tried filesystems. Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >
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