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fall-through dentries

Posted Mar 30, 2009 8:45 UTC (Mon) by bharata (subscriber, #7885)
In reply to: fall-through dentries by bharata
Parent article: Union file systems: Implementations, part I

> I know that supporting all sorts of corner cases and features has caused > major pains for union mount, but this restriction sounds a bit too
> restrictive to me :)

This also will cause problems if you want to use union mount in server consolidation environments where you have multiple servers working out of a common base distribution as their lower layer. With your scheme, I will not be able to do updates (like security updates) to the base distribution and see it getting effected in all the servers.


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