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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!feeder.chicago.cic.net!chi-news.cic.net!data.ramona.vix.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ? Union FS Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 04:11:00 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 14 Message-ID: <33799DC4.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <5lc128$ieg@vestein.arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: "Wilhelm B. Kloke" <wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40830 Wilhelm B. Kloke wrote: > > As I find the idea of union filesystem really useful, I wonder how the > state of this is in FreeBSD. AFAIK in FreeBSD unionfs is buggy, in > NetBSD it is usable. But I don't really want to switch over to NetBSD > as I like FreeBSD for other things. It's being worked on in 3.0 right now and has made substantial progress towards being usably stable. Kato (the developer working on it) has also provided patches for the 2.2 branch but, AFAIK, nobody took him up on his offer to test them. :) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.