On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Alan Altmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  UnionFS should help alot.  Then you don't *care* so much about where an
>  app stores its files (or where the app is installed!), and it makes
>  upgrading the base system easier.  In theory.

That's one of the COW file systems that I was hinting at. I have been
following UnionFS for some time. It also has some potential
performance advantages that I could appreciate. Last time I had a
working system with it, there were still a number of functional
problems (some popular file operations just not working). After all,
you do tweak the file system semantics and the question is whether you
can get away with it. Too bad Linux does not implement the union bind
from BSD.

Rob
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Rob van der Heij
Velocity Software GmbH
http://velocitysoftware.com/

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