Re: [Hampshire] unionfs and nfsroot

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] unionfs and nfsroot

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On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:10:21AM +0100, Dave Walker wrote:
> Andy Smith wrote:
> > Anyone know much about unionfs?
> >
> > I've got a virtual machine that's booted over NFS read-only but I
> > want it to act a little bit like a live CD type of affair by doing a
> > unionfs between its (NFS) root and /dev/shm/.union (tmpfs).
>
> <SNIP>
>
> I would use aufs over unionfs:


You may want to consider this comment[1] from Christoph Hellwig,
who is, like Al Viro, highly abrasive but usually right.

Hugo.

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120850448810590&w=2

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