Messages in this thread | | | From | Michal Suchanek <> | Date | Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:45:03 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] overlay filesystem: request for inclusion |
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On 10 June 2011 13:51, Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@itwm.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > On 06/09/2011 09:32 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:49:47 +0100 >> Andy Whitcroft<apw@canonical.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:52:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> >>> The problem with the userspace alternative is that it does not work. I >>> tried to run my live CD on top of unionfs-fuse and the filesystem >>> would fail intermittently leading to random errors during boot. >> >> >> If the implementation is slow or buggy then the appropriate action is >> to speed it up and to fix the bugs, so these are just non-arguments, >> IMO. > > Exactly. It is rather sad that people never bothered to file bug reports > about slow performance issues. I'm one of the upstream authors of > unionfs-fuse and also use it on my own for live-USB sticks and NFS-booted > systems and do not have such problems.
The issue is that while I can pause the boot process in initramfs and the filesystem appears all well and running if I run init off the filesystem some filesystem operations just fail at random leading to files seemingly missing intermittently and the live CD failing to boot.
I realize this is tremendously useful information but that's all I can say about the issue which is why I did not bother to report it anywhere.
I used whatever was packaged in Debian Squeeze.
Thanks
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