Re: X configuration and mount_unionfs

Matteo Riondato <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:42:46 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.freesbie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 06:35:29PM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:37:45AM +0100, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> > unionfs as it is in RELENG_6 is everything but stable in the middle
> > run, and sometimes even in the short run. Daichi Goto has a working
> > patch that fixes it, but I don't want to use unionfs now, for two
> > reasons:
> 
> Does unionfs in CURRENT work to your liking?  Daichi's patches solve a lot
> of problems, but we still have some reports of issues from Kris Kennaway,
> especially when running on SMP systems or under load.

I only tested unionfs in -CURRENT once, because I was quite busy, but
IIRC it worked well enough to use a FreeSBIE system with unionfs
enabled.

> Until we iron out those issues, I don't want to merge CURRENT unionfs
> to RELENG_6.

I agree.
Best Regards
-- 
Matteo Riondato
FreeBSD Committer (http://www.freebsd.org)
G.U.F.I. Staff Member (http://www.gufi.org)
FreeSBIE Developer (http://www.freesbie.org)

-- 
FreeSBIE mailing list (http://www.freesbie.org)
signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, 187 B)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFFrxbm2Mp4pR7Fa+wRAmM6AJ48eOc0dV/hQB/kyAT8/gRIFi36qQCfahLX
FAWF2oHA0NE+NOmPoQOJWo0=
=RP+O
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----