[Unionfs] uniofs in ubuntu 7.04?

[Josef Sipek]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:46:55PM +0300, Markku Savela wrote:
> 
> Just wondering... is the unionfs in the current Ubuntu in "working
> condition"? 
...

The short answer is: it's not great.

The long answer is: the Debian package maintainer (from where Ubuntu draws
it's packages hasn't moved to the 2.x version of Unionfs.

> description:    Unionfs 20060916-2203 (http://unionfs.filesystems.org/)
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That's a snapshot from 1 year and 2 days ago! The source code underwent a
major change since then.

I have two suggestions for you:

1) if you want unionfs now, grab the code from unionfs.filesystems.org

2) bug the ubuntu person in change of the unionfs package (I'm not sure how
things work in the ubuntu community) - and tell them that they're missing
out on MAJOR improvements.

The whole situation is rather sad.

Jeff.

-- 
UNIX is user-friendly ... it's just selective about who it's friends are