Re: unionfs: anyone working on this?

["Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 14 May 2005, Bill Hacker wrote:

> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> > Getting more and more tired of FreeBSD's crashes, just curious if anyone is 
> > currently playing around with the unionfs code in DFly?
> >
> > Thanks ..
> >
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> > Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
> > Email: scrappy@xxxxxxx           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
>
> Shortcomings. ACK.  'Direction', certainly.
>
> But 'crashes'?
>
> Not generally a problem with 4.X
>
> 4:49PM  up 477 days, 14:39,

What exactly are you doing with yours? :)  When is the last time you tried 
to create a FIFO on a UNION mounted file system?  How about the vnode 
leak that nobody seems to want to acknowledge exists, but which forces me 
to reboot one of my servers every few weeks:

May 14 18:35:02 venus root: debug.numvnodes: 472900 - debug.freevnodes: 52453 - debug.vnlru_nowhere: 10 - vlruwt

I'd move to 5.x, but apparently the 'shortcomings' become 'major mine 
field' :(

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@xxxxxxx           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664