[Unionfs] Anybody looking at NFS exporting a unionfs ?

[Jesse I Pollard]

Josef Sipek wrote:

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>>> Beware, I've spend long enough pondering about this, that I might be
>>> fixated on the <branch index, lower inum> concept that I don't see
>>> something more creative.
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>> My thoughts are more operationally aimed, than theoretical - theory would
>> focus more on guaranteeing inode availability, operationally though, it
>> doesn't seem to be necessary given the 64 bit range available.
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> I am just worring about "sparse" inode numbers like XFS provides. XFS is
> very real, and very non-theoretical. I'm sure there are others that do
> similar things.
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The other fs I can think of that does something similar is luster, but 
then, they claim not to really have
inodes in the first place.

Yup. And it looks like there is no choice other than the ODF.
> Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.
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