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Union mounts http://valerieaurora.org/union/ Valerie Aurora Red Hat, Inc. <[email protected]> Overview ● The problem ● Existing solutions ● Union mounts ● Why not unionfs? ● Limitations of unionfs ● What you can do ● How to take over the world with union mounts and Puppet What's the problem? ● Lots of nearly identical root file systems ● Virtual machines ● Any cluster ● LiveCD ● Could we share some of these? Ways to share file systems ● Copy-on-write (COW) block devices ● NFS-exported root file system ● Other network/cluster file systems ● Snapshots Why do we need union mounts? ● COW block device inefficient, divergent ● NFS server gets overloaded ● Cluster file system is needlessly heavyweight ● Snapshots are limited to a single system Solution: file-level sharing ● Take one read-only file system (shared) ● Add one local writable file system ● Lookups “fall through” to lower read-only fs ● Writes go to topmost writable fs ● Writes to lower fs trigger copy-up to topmost fs Sounds like... unionfs ● Unionfs and aufs panic the kernel ● Unionfs architecture is fundamentally broken ● Al Viro's canonical explanation here: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0802.0/0839.html ● University research project ● Unmerged for 7 years and counting Why union mounts is different ● Implemented in the VFS ● Designed with help of VFS maintainers ● Many fewer features Limitations of union mounts ● open(O_RDONLY) gets you a different file from open (O_RDWR) ● fchmod()/fchown()/futimensat() on fd don't work ● Only one writable layer ● Requires on-disk format changes to topmost fs What you can do ● Use open(O_RDONLY) ● Don't use fchmod()/fchown()/futimensat() on fd ● Don't access same file from multiple fds ● Let your engineers work on union mounts ● Review ● Test ● http://valerieaurora.org/union/ Puppet + Union mounts = World Domination Thank you Jan Blunck Miklos Szeredi Felix Fietkau Al Viro Erez Zadok Christoph Hellwig J. R. Okajima Ric Wheeler and more Union Mounts http://valerieaurora.org/union/ .

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