[Unionfs] Using UnionFS on many many filesystems

[Shaya Potter]

In research I'm doing I have over 400 branches unioned together. 
lookup() performance isn't that great, but it works well enough.

Fabian, Andy wrote:
> Are there any hard limits on the number of filesystems that can be 
> joined concurrently into a single UnionFS filesystem?  Are there any 
> performance characteristics that drop more than linearly as the number 
> of source filesystems increase?
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> I’m thinking of using UnionFS in a backup system, to join potentially 
> hundreds of incremental backups together.  Is there any reason this 
> shouldn’t work?
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> Thanks,
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> Andrew Fabian
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> System Admin
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> Library Systems
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> Virginia Tech
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> Blacksburg, Virginia
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> (540)231-6383
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> afabian at vt.edu
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