Anyone use nullfs or unionfs ?

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 24 19:44:54 PST 2004


On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:07:00PM +0100, Bill Squire wrote:
> Nullfs works fine on the high-end amd i386 machines, but is rather 'thrashy'
> and inefficient on amd64. Is this a hardware bug or is there a patch to make
> it work?
...
> As for unionfs, it would be very nice if it truely worked. It seems to not
> be able to deal with very large overlays.

Please provide some details.  You've given no motivation to developers to
go look at something they might now have used before.  HOW does it not
work?  Do you have logs showing this?  Do you have ERROR MESSAGES showing
this?  Do you have a BENCHMARK showing this?

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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