freebsd stable - Oct 2007 - 8-CURRENT, RELENG_7 and RELENG_6 have gotten latest unionfs improvements

Hi unionfs folks

It is my pleasure and honor to announce the commitment of
latest unionfs improvements for 8-current, RELENG_7 and
RELENG_6. Now you can get more stable operation using
unionfs on latest 8/7/6.

This latest improvements give finstall and FreeSBIE works
more well as well as other unionfs works good. If you have
interesting in it, would you try it please.

However, follow two issues we still have:

  - It gets a hang-up in a certain case using with NFS.
  - We cannot see devfs on unionfs.

I am going to try those issue fix in near future.


Thanks all folks who have helped us!


The documents of those unionfs:

   http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/  (English)
   http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/index-ja.html  (Japanese)

-- 
   Daichi GOTO, http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi

* Daichi GOTO (daichi@freebsd.org) wrote:
> It is my pleasure and honor to announce the commitment of
> latest unionfs improvements for 8-current, RELENG_7 and
> RELENG_6. Now you can get more stable operation using
> unionfs on latest 8/7/6.
>
> This latest improvements give finstall and FreeSBIE works
> more well as well as other unionfs works good. If you have
> interesting in it, would you try it please.
Thanks a lot all your guys for your work!

Btw, I was wondering: is unionfs related in any way with -ounion
option of mount_*? I was told long time ago that -ounion is even
more broken than unionfs. Though, those two features seem to do very
similar thing and I think that -ounion option is pretty useful.

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