Talk:UnionFS

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What is meant by ad-hoc snapshotting system here in the article? Hirzel 12:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I this that unionfs is "ad-hoc" due to fact that it was not designed for this purporse and more appropriate snapshoting systems exist. --Alvin-cs ✉ 22:36, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The union file system is not Linux only, but is on FreeBSD as well - and has existed there much longer, as well.

The way the article is written, it does not seem to be able to make up its mind whether the article is Linux-specific or not...

Yes, it is, so why is it mentioned here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.9.160.232 (talk) 03:08, August 20, 2007 (UTC)

I recall having used DEC-VAX search-path in VAX-OS -- the search path could be setup just as a layered directory, where the write would go to the top layer.

Im suspect that pre-dates any SunOS work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.102.102.19 (talk) 18:30, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Does NOT allow balancing filesystem usage. Does NOT allow hardlinks in the merged volume. Is user-space, based on FUSE. Works well on multiple writable volumes (better than AUFSv1 imho.) BTW, AUFS does filesystem usage balancing on create, and this works admirably well. Moves are more of a problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.57.233.159 (talk) 12:17, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In the absence of a reliable source spelling it with StudlyCaps, this article ought to be moved to "unionfs" (all lower case) to match the name by which it is most commonly known.

Also, the article suffers from the usual confusion between union mounts, an operating-system feature, and unionfs, the copy-on-write filesystem implementation which uses that feature. 174.214.250.80 (talk) 19:11, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I can't find any sources that call it "UnionFS". It's referred to as "Unionfs" (the system), or "unionfs" (the program and package identifier). Krinkle (talk) 20:53, 2 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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