On 10 June 2011 13:51, Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/09/2011 09:32 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 14:49:47 +0100 >> Andy Whitcroft<apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Âwrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:52:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >>> >>> The problem with the userspace alternative is that it does not work. I >>> tried to run my live CD on top of unionfs-fuse and the filesystem >>> would fail intermittently leading to random errors during boot. >> >> >> If the implementation is slow or buggy then the appropriate action is >> to speed it up and to fix the bugs, so these are just non-arguments, >> IMO. > > Exactly. It is rather sad that people never bothered to file bug reports > about slow performance issues. I'm one of the upstream authors of > unionfs-fuse and also use it on my own for live-USB sticks and NFS-booted > systems and do not have such problems. The issue is that while I can pause the boot process in initramfs and the filesystem appears all well and running if I run init off the filesystem some filesystem operations just fail at random leading to files seemingly missing intermittently and the live CD failing to boot. I realize this is tremendously useful information but that's all I can say about the issue which is why I did not bother to report it anywhere. I used whatever was packaged in Debian Squeeze. Thanks Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
