Bug#481490: ITP: unionfs-fuse -- user-space directory concatenation
On Friday 16 May 2008, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> how does it compare to funionfs?
Compare the sources yourself ;) Funionfs has all code in a very few files,
only a very few comments and then some of these in French...
On the other hand, unionfs-fuse is well structured, has many comments, uses
lots of static functions, etc (well I wrote large chunks of the cow code, so
I naturally think the code looks good ;) ).
However, I tested funfionfs myself some time ago and it wasn't running
sufficiently stable (this was shortly before I started to work on
unionfs-fuse).
Again on the other hand, unionfs-fuse is sufficiently stable to run on
diskless workstations (used by my former university group for /etc and /var)
and diskless HPC compute nodes (we are presently using it on most of our
clusters for all system directories). Both of these setups do require large
uptimes and an rock stable unionfs implementation.
Btw, I'm not going to package the released version and also for now not Radeks
main branch, since both branches have some severe bugs. Radek is presently
also too busy to merge my branch
(http://podgorny.cz/~bernd/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/radek-trunk-bernd-merge).
Cheers,
Bernd
PS: I know, funionfs has one advantage to unionfs-fuse, it has a control
utility. However, for our needs a stable unionfs implementation is by far
more important than this tool.
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