David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Slaven Rezic wrote, some time around 08/09/2008 21:30: > > Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> # from imacat > >> # on Sunday 07 September 2008 12:52: > >> > >>>> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:00:40PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > >>>> This requires the tester to have the infrastructure in place to > >>>> clean up afterwards - probably by running in a VM (which itself > >>>> limits testing to > >>> I believe there is "chroot". > >> Possibly with a stackable (overlay/copy-on-write) filesystem: > >> > >> http://www.unionfs.org/ > >> http://aufs.sourceforge.net/ > >> > >> That means you can run a bunch of stuff and then just wipe out the > >> changes from the overlay point. I've played with unionfs on debian > >> etch and I think it would do everything you need (possibly even > >> from within a chroot) unless your needs involve a few particular > >> things with nfs, which is where the aufs "new hotness" comes in. > > Unfortunately these are Linux-only, it seems. I would love to have a > > _usable_ stacking filesystem on FreeBSD. > > I thought they got unionfs working on FreeBSD 7.0, no? Or it's still broken? >
There seems to be hope: http://people.freebsd.org/~daichi/unionfs/ Maybe I should really upgrade. Regards, Slaven -- Slaven Rezic - slaven <at> rezic <dot> de tknotes - A knotes clone, written in Perl/Tk. http://ptktools.sourceforge.net/#tknotes
