Am 26.07.2016 um 02:07 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 21:05 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> We have already overlayfs in modern kernels. Could you explain why we >> need aufs4 as well? > > I believe aufs stil has these advantages over overlayfs: > > - Can be exported via NFS > - White-outs share an inode rather than > requiring an inode each > - Sparse files remain sparse when copied-up > - > Multiple writeable branches > - Creating a hard link does not require a > copy-up > > Ben. Ben summarized better than I could the still existing advantages of aufs. In a production setup I administrate, we particularly use the NFS feature. Jan.
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