thanks On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:08:50AM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote: > 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. > > -- A. -- It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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