On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:16:10PM -0400, Scott Ullrich wrote: > What I meant by limitations is in this scay man page for unionfs: > > THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FULLY SUPPORTED (READ: IT DOESN'T WORK) > AND USING IT MAY, IN FACT, DESTROY DATA ON YOUR SYSTEM. USE AT YOUR OWN > RISK. BEWARE OF DOG. SLIPPERY WHEN WET. > > This code also needs an owner in order to be less dangerous - serious > hackers can apply by sending mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and announcing > their intent to take it over. > > Without whiteout support from the file system backing the upper layer, > there is no way that delete and rename operations on lower layer objects > can be done. EROFS is returned for this kind of operations along with > any others which would make modifications to the lower layer, such as > chmod(1).
Also, in order to give the opportunity of installing new programs we have two ways: ports and packages. In the ports' case we should include the entire ports' collection (compressed) that equals a big amount of space substracted to the programs. Also compiling big programs may cause easily out of memory problems. Package system (which I don't like very much except for initial installations) (I avoid it as much as I can), isn't really transparent, i.e. you can't know if a package exists, or what is the exact package name, until you don't search it on a ports' tree or on freshports or whatever. We haven't a tool for searching packages, selecting and installing automagically. For those who don't know the Debian package system used by Knoppix and Ubuntu's live CDs, there's usually a customisable list of repositories to download the list of packages from, and then selecting and installing them is a bunch of commands. Or clicks, if you use a graphical package manager. We should invent an online ports' tree :) Bye, Dario -- Dario Freni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - satu on Azzurra Gruppo Utenti FreeBSD Italia (http://www.gufi.org) GPG Public key at http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc
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