On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Nikolaus Rath <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 04 2015, Cameron Boehmer <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> But what would be the advantage of simply mounting the local file > system > >>>> somewhere else? > >>> > >>> E.g., I would like a user to be able to mount this unionfs at ~/ and > feel > >>> confident that the fs process could crash, the network or remote > service > >>> could go away at any moment, and the files they’ve been interacting > with > >>> will still be there on the local disk, exactly where they were left. > >> > >> That sounds rather dangerous. So you want your file system to > >> self-unmount when it looses network connectivity? > > > > > > No, it’ll just keep operating locally and queuing up operations to send > to > > the remotes when they come back. > > You've missed the point. The question was why you'd want to mount the > local file system and the union file system at the same path. If the > union file system is not unmounted, it does not matter where the local > file system is mounted. > Oops—didn’t mean to imply that the localfs gets mounted at all. As you noted, by its inclusion in the unionfs, it’s effectively mounted. Maybe I was imprecise when referring to the local tree that localfs proxies into unionfs. > >> You would also need a watchdog to unmount the file system in case it > >> crashes without unmounting itself. > >> > >> But even if you did all that, applications that already opened files or > >> directories on the unionfs would still hang or crash. > > > > That’s true for any filesystem, no? I.e., try not to crash. > > Again, then why worry about where the local fs is mounted? > > > Best, > -Nikolaus > > -- > GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F > Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F > > »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "s3ql" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/s3ql/S9_ETpoemDs/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "s3ql" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
