I was just thinking about all the work that's done to uncompress the runnix formatted images, pivot the OS, etc. as well as the symlink-hell that we use... and was revisiting AMD (the automount daemon).
It supports a lot of different filesystem types (including iso, loopback, and link/linkx). We could use the link filesystem to manage maps to unmodified files in /stat/ or once they are modified, a tear-away copy could be populated into /oldroot/mnt/asturw/... and the link changed on the fly. The neat thing about this is that install scripts, start-up scripts, etc. wouldn't need to know about the linking going on, and we wouldn't have to create the symlinks as part of the install nor at start-up from /etc/init.d/.... I believe amd also supports unionfs, so we could start out by migrating a small number of subsystems and do a rolling conversion, rather than throwing a great big switch. Thoughts? -Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
