Hi Michael,
Thank you for your report.

"Michael Niederle":
> Junjiro added a patch that allowed for changing file ownership which
> originally did not work correctly (thanks again!) and I happily used aufs for
> more than two years.

Unfortunately I am unsure which patch you mentioned. Is it a
special/personal patch only for you, or generic one already merged?


> An important caveat I found was that one *should not* replace a directory by a
> file or vice versa!

As far as I know, udba=inotify tries supporting such case. But in some
cases, aufs has to assign a new inode number for it, which means some
applications may not continue working and you have to restart them.


> Since kernel 2.6.32 I now use btrfs that's astonishingly stable by now and
> which performs great on flash-memory-pen-drives.
>
> I continue to use aufs (in combination with squashfs) for storing
> incremental backups.

I have heard that btrfs has a feature like unioning. Are you using it?
Does it work well?


J. R. Okajima

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