So this is a really delayed, but have been using pmfsrr and it seems to be working perfectly. I apologize for not responding way sooner.
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Michael Johnson - MJ <[1]m...@revmj.com> wrote: Hey J.R., I saw this in the 'aufs3 GIT release' email last night. It may take me a bit to get it tested, but I will let you know as soon as I do. On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:35 AM, <[2]sf...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: Hello MJ, Michael Johnson - MJ: > I've been using aufs in this manner for years now, and it has been very > nice, I've bounced between btrfs and zfs a few times, upgraded drives a few > at at time, etc. The only thing I've run into that has caused me any real > trouble is that none of the create policies are exactly what I want.  pmfs > is very close, but it would be nice if you could set a low water mark > similar to the low value for the mfsrr create policy. Perhaps this could > be called 'pmfsrr' (although I'm not sure that quite the right thing to > call it.)  Here is the way I would envision it working: > > create=pmfsrr:low:[second] > Selects a writable branch where the parent dir exists, such as tdp mode. > When the parent dir exists on multiple writable branches, aufs selects the > one which has most free space, such as mfs mode. If there are less than > 'low' bytes (a percentage would actually be more favorable imo) available > on all branches where the parent dir exists, the writable branch with the > most free space will be selected. I have implemented the new pmfsrr policy and released today. Please test it well and report here. Thanx in advance J. R. Okajima -- Michael Johnson - MJ -- Michael Johnson - MJ References 1. mailto:m...@revmj.com 2. mailto:sf...@users.sourceforge.net
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