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On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:39 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: |
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> Random question: has anyone thought about or looked at using unionfs or |
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> mini_fo or one of the other "translucent" or "fan-out" or whatever you |
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> want to call them, filesystems? I mean, for allowing a writable |
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> configuration for a livecd without needing to strew symlinks etc. around |
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> the base filesystem? |
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Remember that any such changes, from a Release Engineering standpoint, |
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are bad. They take a long time to ensure they work, and we try our best |
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to not use anything that isn't available/stable on all arches we |
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support. |
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That being said, I would love to see some work being done by somebody on |
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poking around with unionfs. I think it would be very good for the |
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upcoming LiveCD/Installer disk, as it would allow people to configure |
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their settings, then transfer them to the running system once the |
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installation is complete. |
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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 |
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