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Eric Edgar wrote:
> ... the busybox discussion that you are
> mentioning wont be implemented. There is too much work to get a usable
> system based on that. I know for a fact that much of the regular
> expression stuff will break because of that. Who knows how much else
> will be broken.
Yep, that's an understatement ;) found that out last night after a few
more hours playing with baselayout. Sorry about the silly question ;)
> For what you are doing however you could use cow files to make things
> more secure.
Well, really my ideal goal is to produce a system image which has _no_
persistent state whatsoever, i.e. it boots off a rom-type filesystem
(squashfs), does some linking and copying before /sbin/init into a tmpfs
and does a pivot_root to that (basically the same thing the livecd's
initrd does, only with a directory tree on the root fs, instead of a
loop-mounted image), and an init script downloads the service configs
and nfs-mounts the content at startup. This way, every time updated
packages are available, you just rebuild the root fs, and reboot the VM
with the new image, and there's no need to copy over any of the
configuration. Likewise, if you want to modify the config, you just edit
the host's copy and reboot the VM, no need to change anything in the
VM's root fs.
> When catalyst 2 comes out you can take the stage4 target which makes it
> possible to make a system that is stored in a tarball and take some
> scripts and migrate it into the uml loop back files. This may be what
> you are looking for.
Actually that would be perfect. I've already scraped together some
scripts that will take a stage3 and wrap it in a squashfs with a setup
script that does the livecd-style link and copy into tmpfs before
init... so if stage4 can generate the system tarball, that should do it.
- -- V. Condino
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