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On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 20:50 +0200, Georg Lippold wrote: |
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Make a patch and file a bug for the scanning. Same with the changes |
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from your last email. |
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> You say it's known to be broken, what else needs to be fixed besides bug |
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> 99682 (and that is already resolved, as it seems)? I currently have the |
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Well, unionfs "support" was added as a proof of concept by one of the |
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developers in very little time. It was in a "works for me" state then, |
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and hasn't really been touched since. If you're willing to provide |
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patches, then I don't see why they wouldn't be included, we just aren't |
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going to spend *our* time doing development on it right now until we can |
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get some more pressing bugs resolved. |
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> strange feeling, that unionctl is not copied to the initrd of the |
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> livecd, as it was not found when I booted from a CD made with 'genkernel |
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> --unionfs'. I tried to extract the file isolinux/gentoo.igz from the |
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> cdrom to check, but I didn't get all of it's contents, as it seems. |
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> 'gunzip -c gentoo.igz | cpio -i' has only this content: |
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There is no initrd. It is an initramfs. It also is a concatenation of |
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multiple cpio archives, so you can't just extract one and expect it to |
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work. You're only getting the "base" cpio image. The best way to look |
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into them is to look into the caches that genkernel makes when creating |
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the initramfs. I know that rocket knows of a way to actually work out |
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the extraction, but to make it simple, you're only extracting the first |
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cpio archive of many. |
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> But the file has extracted ~17 MB... Mounting it with -o loop didn't |
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> succeed either, but maybe I'm not having the right FS in my kernel. Can |
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> you help me on this? |
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It isn't a file-system, so it cannot be mounted. |
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> For me this feature is very important, and I would be willing to |
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> maintain the unionfs of the LiveCD, if it helps you having more time. |
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Well, the main thing is providing patches. Even better would be to |
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watch genkernel@g.o on bugzilla, and file patches for any bugs |
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that people find regarding unionfs. From what you're telling me, it |
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sounds like it might be 90% there, and just needs the last 10% to make |
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it work right. If that's the case, then it shouldn't be a problem |
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getting the proper support into genkernel. Right now, we just don't |
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want to touch it, though we'll gladly accept patches. ;] |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |