[Unionfs] Re: unionfs, cow, and whiteout

[Paul Albrecht]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 16:53 +0100, pascal at pabr.org wrote:
> Paul Albrecht wrote:
> > If you're unconvinced that the liveCD scenario is normative check out
> > the unionfs home page which lists projects presently using unionfs.
> 
> But maybe the reason why people use unionfs mostly for liveCDs
> is precisely because it is not ready for other applications yet.
> The original design included several other uses.  See e.g. "Unified
> Home Directories" in http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/7714/print
> (this has the same requirements as my application).
> 
> If it is too hard to support all scenarios in a single code base,
> that's perfectly fine, but then I need another stacking filesystem.
> 

I don't think the various scenarios are mutually exclusive, and I don't
see why they both can't be supported using the same code base.

> Pascal
> 
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Paul Albrecht