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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:19:57PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> If it's not in the changelog or the documentation, it doesn't exist.

Good point. I'll add it for next time.

> > It's the same thing as modifying a block
> > device while a file system is using it. Now, when unionfs gets confused,
> > it shouldn't oops, but would one expect ext3 to allow one to modify its
> > backing store while its using it?
>
> There's no such problem with bind mounts. It's surprising to see such a
> restriction with union mounts.

Bind mounts are a purely VFS level construct. Unionfs is, as the name
implies, a filesystem. Last year at OLS, it seemed that a lot of people
agreed that unioning is neither purely a fs construct, nor purely a vfs
construct.

I'm using Unionfs (and ecryptfs) as guinea pigs to make linux fs stacking
friendly - a topic to be discussed at LSF in about a month.

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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