Stef Bon wrote:
What do you think about unionfs? The existing situation works, but this new construction looks good.
Unionfs was used with LFS-6.1 LiveCDs. It has been dropped then, for a reason: too buggy, especially on SMP. Try running "make check" for glibc on unionfs. Or (for stress testing) try installing the same package (e.g., Vim) 1000 times repeatedly in /usr on LFS-6.1.1 CD. It will just hang or produce an oops. Many unionfs releases could not even boot the CD (i.e., produced an oops as early as during boot).
The new DM-based CDs handle this stress test just fine, but DM is not suitable for package management because it works on block device level, not filesystem level.
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