Sorry to hijack the thread, I am planning to look at unionfs on livecd soon as well as unionfs with other distribution methods (i.e. netboot). Could you could explain (briefly) the problems you encountered? Was it a problem with genkernel (applying the patches, building a correct initramfs, etc.?) or was it trying to boot a gentoo system with a unionfs backed root?
Also, did you try any of the unionfs clones (such as aufs)? I suspect the problems were not specific to unionfs, but if they were related to quirks of unionfs then I will investigate trying one of the clones instead. Any help or direction you could give would be appreciated. Thanks, John On 9/12/07, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 07:04 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > >> Don't put the data in /home. You can also look into figuring out the > > >> (now broken, again) unionfs support in genkernel. > > >> > > > > > > I'll try to use the unionfs support; is there a genkernel version that > > > you know > > > support it? > > > > You missed his point. The latest gk versions have the unionfs support, > but it > > keeps breaking for some reason. He was dropping a "subtle" hint for you > to take > > a look at it and try to fix it ;) > > Correct. No current version of genkernel works with all of the relevant > kernels. I was merely suggesting that there is a big bunch of code > already that does what you want, but it isn't very important to the > developers because we never got it working quite right, and as such > don't use it, but it could be fixed. > > -- > Chris Gianelloni > Release Engineering Strategic Lead > Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams > Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee > Gentoo Foundation > >
