unionfs: anyone working on this?

Marc G. Fournier scrappy at hub.org
Sat May 14 14:47:48 PDT 2005


On Sat, 14 May 2005, Bill Hacker wrote:

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

Getting more and more tired of FreeBSD's crashes, just curious if anyone is 
currently playing around with the unionfs code in DFly?

Thanks ..

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at xxxxxxx           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
Shortcomings. ACK.  'Direction', certainly.

But 'crashes'?

Not generally a problem with 4.X

4:49PM  up 477 days, 14:39,
What exactly are you doing with yours? :)  When is the last time you tried 
to create a FIFO on a UNION mounted file system?  How about the vnode 
leak that nobody seems to want to acknowledge exists, but which forces me 
to reboot one of my servers every few weeks:

May 14 18:35:02 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 472900 - debug.freevnodes: 52453 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 10 - vlruwt

I'd move to 5.x, but apparently the 'shortcomings' become 'major mine 
field' :(

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy at xxxxxxx           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664




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