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Bug#832451: ITP: aufs4 -- advanced multi layered unification filesystem version 4.x



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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