[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> yazmış: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Norberto Bensa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 9:29 AM > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unionfs for 2.6.20 > > > > > > Ali Polatel wrote: > > > You should use unionfs version 2.0 which is a part of -mm > > tree. You > > > can either get mm-sources or manually patch your kernel. > > Have a look > > > at http://www.am-utils.org/project-unionfs.html for more info.. > > > > But there's no unionfs-utils unless you're using sabayon overlay... > > > > Regards, > > Norberto > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > I have seen many people mentioning UnionFS. > What exactly is it, and what does it do? > (:P Besides the statement that it is an FS.)
quoting from wikipedia[1]: UnionFS is a Linux filesystem service which implements a union mount for Linux file systems. It allows files and directories of separate file systems, known as branches, to be transparently overlaid, forming a single coherent file system. For example you can put your portage tree in a squashfs filesystem - which you can only mount ro - so that it'll take little space and create a unionfs with it and a directory in /dev/shm to keep track of changes between syncs[2]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionfs [2]: http://dev.gentoo.org/~jokey/squashed-portage-tree/ -- ali polatel (hawking) Keep America beautiful. Swallow your beer cans. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list