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papahuhn
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 Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:09 am Post subject: Is unionFS safe? |
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Hello,
I would like to merge two xfs-filesystems into one. As far as I can see, unionFS is not supported by the kernel directly, and sys-fs/unionfs is marked unstable. Now I'm a bit worried about crashing my filesystems. Have there been any severe problems?
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TempTux
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:15 pm Post subject: Re: Is unionFS safe? |
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| papahuhn wrote: | Hello,
I would like to merge two xfs-filesystems into one. As far as I can see, unionFS is not supported by the kernel directly, and sys-fs/unionfs is marked unstable. Now I'm a bit worried about crashing my filesystems. Have there been any severe problems? |
Not here, no.
'Unstable' in the context of gentoo portage does not mean (necessarily) that the program will behave badly. Instead it means, that its interface, API or portage integration/dependencies are expected to change.
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Corona688
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| Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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I've experimented with unionfs, and haven't had any problems kernel-wise. I used it to mount compressed filesystems as read-only "underlays" for the purpose of conserving disk space. The output of df can get quite confusing when you have too many things mounted on top of each other 
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