Smartboy wrote:
> I've been pursuing the UnionFS hint quite a bit over the past couple
> years, though each attempt has either failed or I just never had time to
> finish it. The biggest problem is that I don't know how to get
> UnionFS/AUFS available during the Chapter 6 build, though I may have
It would need to be present in the development system. During Chapter
6 we still aren't booting the system being built, we are still booting
the development system.
> founda way aruond it if I install each package twice, once to its
> location in /pkgs and once normally, then delete everything outside of
> /pkgs (with /dev probably being an exception) when done. However, as my
> university studies keep me busy, I don't actually have time to test this
> and see if it would work.
That sounds more like the fake root approach. I've used the fake root
approach in serious (read: professional) development, and it has
very real advantages.
> As for AUFS vs UnionFS, I think AUFS is far superior to UnionFS to the
> point where in some distros UnionFS isn't even provided (Arch offers
> AUFS instead of UnionFS). I don't see any features in UnionFS that it
> isn't in AUFS.
Well, that's the rumor, but I haven't seen any real data.
Thanks!
Mike
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