Hello Ben, > Also, how well does the vfs server handle config updates?
the VFS does not support dynamic reconfiguration. (yet) > Can you give me more > details on the status of the vfs in that regard? Specifically, how > does it handle duplicates and writing? The order of sub nodes within the top-level <vfs> node and within <dir> nodes defines how content is shadowed. The VFS does not support copy-on-write. A file provided by a read-only file system will stay read only and cannot be changed. However, we plan to supplement copy-on-write support as a plugin later. Until then, the use case of providing an initial version of a config file that can be modified at runtime cannot be covered by the vfs. Here, we still have to use the ram_fs loaded with initial <content>. > Which filesystem/plugin > provides the file? And which one is written to when a new file is > created? A new file is created on the first writeable file system mounted at the directory hosting the new file. You may experiment with the VFS using a <ram> file system as a writeable file system and <tar> file systems for read-only content. You may also find the various noux scenarios worth looking at because they all use the VFS. In particular, they mount multiple tar archives at '/' where each tar archive contains a '/bin' directory. In the VFS, the joint content of all archives becomes visible. Cheers Norman -- Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske Genode Labs https://www.genode-labs.com · https://genode.org Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ genode-main mailing list genode-main@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/genode-main
