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= Foreword =

This is my effort to create a unionfs filesystem implementation which is probably slower but way more flexible than the current in-kernel unionfs solution. Currently it's almost fully usable, will only minor convenience issues to be fixed...

I'm open to patches, suggestions, whatever (at radek@podgorny.cz)...

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== Why choose this stuff ==

 * The filesystem has to be mounted after the roots are mounted when using the standard module. With unionfs-fuse, you can mount the roots later and their contents will appear seamlesly
 * You get caching which speeds things up a lot for free
 * You get nice stats (optional)

== Why NOT choose it ==

 * Compared to kernel-space solution we need lots of useless context switches which makes kernel-only solution clear speed-winner

== Usage ==

{{{
unionfs [options] root[:root...] mountpoint
The first argument is a colon separated list of directories to merge

general options:
    -o opt,[opt...] mount options
    -h --help print help
    -V --version print version

UnionFS options:
    -o stats show statistics in the file 'stats' under the mountpoint
}}}

== TODO ==

 * Add support for choice which roots are read-only and which are not
 * Add cache controls
 * Handle writing to /stats intelligently

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== Donation ==

If you use the software and like it, please consider a donation (provided by Pay''''''Pal)...

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== Download ==

 * Latest version: 0.16 (released 2007-01-26)
 * Archive location: http://podgorny.cz/unionfs-fuse/releases/

If you want to follow the development closely, see my mercurial repository at:

 * http://hg.podgorny.cz/unionfs-fuse
unionfs-fuse has moved to https://github.com/rpodgorny/unionfs-fuse. see you there! ;-)

unionfs-fuse has moved to https://github.com/rpodgorny/unionfs-fuse. see you there! ;-)