Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > 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). That the life CD's do not work with unionfs is too bad! Unionfs is extremely usefull with a readonly medium like a cdrom in combination with a temporary disk in ram.
I'm not well informed in these area's but there is one lifecd working with this I know of: SLAX. Stef Bon > > 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. > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
