Various notes on /usr unification

Posted Mar 3, 2012 22:07 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Various notes on /usr unification by dpquigl
Parent article: Various notes on /usr unification

FUSE union mounts actually work, but way too slow for real use.

And no, I'm not aware of any progress in that area.

Various notes on /usr unification

Posted Mar 4, 2012 18:02 UTC (Sun) by dpquigl (guest, #52852) [Link] (1 responses)

If you want to go with file system approaches unionfs and aufs have been around long before the FUSE version of unionfs. How full featured is the FUSE one? From what I understand everyone has been focusing on the most common case which is one RW branch and one RO branch. They don't want to do an arbitrary number of branches.

Various notes on /usr unification

Posted Mar 4, 2012 22:36 UTC (Sun) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

As I understand, unionfs in FUSE is pretty complete.

However, FUSE itself is not ready at all for high-performance filesystems. It's fine for things like sshfs over WAN but totally sucks for local filesystems.