the current status of nullfs, unionfs

Marc G. Fournier scrappy at hub.org
Thu Mar 10 20:15:46 GMT 2005


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:45:04PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Andy Hilker wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> You (Denis Shaposhnikov) wrote:
>>>>>>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway <kris at freebsd.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Kris> nullfs seems to work fine, unionfs is very fragile and easily
>>>> Kris> exploded.
>>>>
>>>> nullfs is absolutely useless for jail's because TOO slow.
>>>
>>>
>>> What do you mean exactly, how do you benchmark this?
>>
>> That's okay, my experiences are that nullfs is too fragile and easily
>> exploded ...
>
> I was referring to 5.x and above.

Sorry, jump'd into the thread late, and ended up getting caught up in the 
archives *after* sending ... I haven't risked 5.x for production servers 
yet because of its issues :(

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