Re: unionfs

[Andrew Reid <reidac@bellatlantic.net>]

On Sunday 07 February 2010 17:32:45 Alex Samad wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am looking at trying out unionfs, I notice there is onlythe
> unionfs-fuse package - is this the way debian is going with unionfs or
> how do you use the kernel version - can't seem to find any comparisons
> between the 2
  
  The Debian-packaged kernel overlay file system is "aufs", which
seem to be a fork and/or successor of unionfs.  

  I have had some difficulties with overlay file systems in "lenny",
I have a diskless cluster where I wanted to overlay two different
NFS-mounted file-systems, and was not able to solve the problem 
within the scope of lenny-packaged tools.  Aufs does work in general,
but not in the case where I wanted it.

  I'm not aware of any comparisons between unionfs and aufs,
but my intuition is that the kernel system should have better
performance.

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