Contributor peterjs

UnionFS has applications out side of the live CD environment, but they never get realized or implement because UnionFS is just so cryptic and the documentation is hard to find, and not definitive.

If we had a graphical tool, or even a set of easy to use scripts for common functions, to to set up and manage unionFS overlays that would go a long way towards helping average users get practical use out of UnionFS.

The two big UnionFS use cases that stand out in my mind are using Union to create versioning file systems, and merging media collections that span multiple partitions/physical drives.

Clearly people aren't reading the comments on ideas before voting on them. For example on this idea:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2612/

The second and third comment clearly show that the idea has already been implemented Yet people keep voting it up. The idea was 4 up votes as of the third comment, and 7 as of posting this idea.

People should be required to read the comments on ideas before voting on them so that dissenting opinions can be considered and already implemented ideas can get the down votes they deserve.

Obviously you can't force people to read and think, but you can move the voting option to below the comments section so that people at least have to look at the comments.