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On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 10:52 +0000, Alex wrote: |
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> Andreas Rückert wrote: |
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> > Is it faster during the boot? |
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> I think it is, because it need not to copy the read-write image contents |
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> to tmpfs. I have never tested it, but that would make sense ;) |
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Incorrect. |
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Adding the unionfs package to the CD does exactly nothing but add the |
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binaries and modules. It makes it only usable after the machine has |
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booted. |
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There is support for unionfs in genkernel, which means within the |
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initramfs, but it is not functional right now and we simply don't have |
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the time to look at it, since it's never been an advertised feature. |
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Basically, if someone files a bug against it (without a patch) we mark |
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it as INVALID and ask for a patch. We have contemplated many times |
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simply removing the code altogether, since it is known to be broken, but |
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we always hoped that we would scrape together some time to fix it. |
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Using the in-genkernel code, it does boot faster. It also has a smaller |
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memory footprint. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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