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| This is my effort to create a unionfs implementation which is probably slower but way more flexible than the current in-kernel unionfs solution. More info will come soon... | 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, the only problem is new file/directory creation which I will fix soon... |
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| This is still INCOMPLETE!!! | I'm open to patches, suggestions, whatever (at radek@podgorny.cz)... [[GoogleAd()]] == 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 |
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| attachment:unionfs.c | == TODO == * Add support for creating directories * Add support for choice which roots are read-only and which are not * Add cache controls * Handle writing to /stats intelligently [[GoogleAd()]] == Download == * Latest version: 0.11 (released 2006-06-11) * Archive location: http://podgorny.cz/unionfs-fuse/releases/ If you want to follow the development closely, see my tinyrcs repository at: * http://podgorny.cz/~radek/rep/unionfs-fuse/ (tinyrcs is my currently-under-development revision control system) |
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, the only problem is new file/directory creation which I will fix soon...
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
Available parameters
--roots=/root1,/root2
--stats
TODO
- Add support for creating directories
- Add support for choice which roots are read-only and which are not
- Add cache controls
- Handle writing to /stats intelligently
Download
- Latest version: 0.11 (released 2006-06-11)
Archive location: http://podgorny.cz/unionfs-fuse/releases/
If you want to follow the development closely, see my tinyrcs repository at:
(tinyrcs is my currently-under-development revision control system)