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Re: Bug#573189: linux-image-2.6.33-2-686: aufs does not work in, 2.6.33



On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 17:09 +0200, Андрей Василишин wrote:
> > Why can't you understand that:
>  > - squeeze is going to use 2.6.32
>  > - experimental is experimental
>  > - aufs is a dirty hack and will keep on breaking
> 
> Why is aufs a dirty hack?

Because the Linux VFS doesn't (yet) provide the generic operations that
a union filesystem needs.  If you look at the aufs config options and
the code, you will see that it needs to handle various filesystems
specially, and it needs to work around various limitations of the VFS.

> I am using it for merging many HDDs in a big storage. I tested mhddfs 
> (http://svn.uvw.ru/mhddfs/trunk/README) and it very often crashed.

How that does that show that aufs is good?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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