On Thu March 10 2011, Corin Langosch wrote: > Hi, > > I love aufs but wonder if it's kernel page cache friendly. > > In my setup I have a shared folder with lot's of tools, libs, etc. > installed. I now mount this read-only to several locations and start the > tools from there. Does this result in reduced memory usage (as it would > be the case if I started the same tool several times from the same path > without using aufs)? > > mount -t aufs -o br:/home/custom1=rw:/home/shared=rr none /home/merged1 > mount -t aufs -o br:/home/custom2=rw:/home/shared=rr none /home/merged2 > > /home/merged1/tool > /home/merged2/tool > > The program "tool" and its libs are of course not "overwritten" in any > of the custom paths. > > BTW: Is aufs really no longer maintained anymore like wikipedia > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS) tells me? Which one is better in > terms of longtime support? >
JRO is still turning out an update every Monday. I would think that means the wikipedia comment is incorrect. ;-) Mike > Thanks, > Corin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Colocation vs. Managed Hosting > A question and answer guide to determining the best fit > for your organization - today and in the future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d
