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unionfs-fuse
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)...
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 (well, actually I've made some tests and the hard-drives seem to be the bottleneck so the speed is fine, too)
 
TODO
- Handle writing to /stats intelligently
 
Donation
If you use the software and like it, please consider a donation (provided by PayPal)...
Download
- Latest version: 0.18 (released 2007-08-09)
 Archive location: http://podgorny.cz/unionfs-fuse/releases/
If you want to follow the development closely, see my mercurial repository at: