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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 2003 00:46:18 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Kenny Freeman <kennyf@pchg.net>
Subject:   Re: Jail FS questions.
Message-ID:  <20031010004358.L28590@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031010031910.GA11148@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20030803200948.GA10712@lewiz.org> <200310091700.09658.kennyf@pchg.net> <20031009223612.J28590@ganymede.hub.org> <20031010031910.GA11148@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Yes, it's a good thing that some developers are finally working on
> fixing some of the problems, but the fact remains that nullfs/unionfs
> *are not known to work in all situations* (indeed, I was able to trigger
> unionfs bugs within a few minutes of testing last time I tried on 5.x,
> over the summer).

Did you submit PRs for the crashes, or, because of the 'big scary
warning', did you just shrug it off as 'it doesn't work'?

> On the other hand, if there are developers working on unionfs who have
> run out of known bugs to fix (I'd be sceptical about this since I don't
> remember any unionfs-related commits over the past 6 months or so,
> although there might be some work-in-progress patches floating around),
> and you're willing to sacrifice your machines in the name of testing,
> then you should talk to those developers.

Last unionfs related commit was on June 18th of this year, actually ...



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