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