John Eckhart wrote:
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.
The problems were in the code in the initramfs that sets up and mounts the
unionfs. Just grab a 2007.0 minimal CD and boot with 'unionfs' on the kernel
commandline. You'll see the problem.
We have not tries unionfs alternatives, but we also haven't put too much effort
into figuring out the cause of the current problem, since unionfs isn't the
"default" method when booting the CD.
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