2007/1/18, Michael Towers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > >> On large drives there's no need for squashfs. And software updates > >> will be OK, just don't forget to do pacman -Scc after each update. > > > > There's still a RAM issue when downloading and unpacking packages. > > One of solutions that will lessen the problem is to sync ramdisk to > > flash filesystem right after doing -Syu and reload ramdisk then - > > updated files won't take ramdisk anymore and work can be continued > > (with enought space in RAM) without reboot. > > Just an idea, > > > > Yes, of course, with a big usb key squashfs would not be so necessary, > but I'm not sure about the 'dynamic' syncing. I'm assuming it's running > in unionfs, and it's maybe not so easy to shuffle the contents of the > layers around (it might be possible somehow, but I believe you can't > just move the contents of the writeable layer to one of the other layers).
I didn't play with unionfs much, but maybe other filesystems can do this more easily: + funionfs (based on fuse) + mapfs + cow support ripped from UML? :p - ext3cow - not suitable for this :( (different idea) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
