Re: overlayfs (was: Re: support for merged /usr in Debian)

2016-01-07 Thread Matthias Klumpp
I am using overlayFS in Limba[1], and it works well (and is really fast!) for read-only filesystems, read-write sometimes has issues if you are using multiple OverlayFS layers (which made me adjust the code so this doesn't happen anymore). 2016-01-06 17:29 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Dowland

overlayfs (was: Re: support for merged /usr in Debian)

2016-01-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 06, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Do you mean overlayfs? If so can you or anyone vouch for its quality? > I had been trying it as a docker storage back end and generally found > that it was not ready yet. Can you be more specific? I only use it to test new packages and it

Re: overlayfs (was: Re: support for merged /usr in Debian)

2016-01-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 01:35:13PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 06, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > Do you mean overlayfs? If so can you or anyone vouch for its quality? > > I had been trying it as a docker storage back end and generally found > > that it was not ready yet.