Hi, I am pleased to announce the release of the "mini_fo" (= mini fan-out) overlay filesystem. This filesystem was specifically desgined to overlay the root filesystem of embedded systems in order to easily be able to apply software updates. It functions similar to the FreeBSD union filesystem and serves to virtually make a read-only filesystem writable.
The "mini_fo" filesystem was developed by extending a fistgen generated stackable filesystem (see www.filesystems.org) to stack on top of two lower layers. This project was the final thesis for my degree in Computer Science. The thesis paper and source code are available at www.denx.de. The code is stable and already actively used in a telecommunications project within Siemens. However, not all features are implemented yet, but I plan to continue developement. Any help is welcome! Regards Markus Klotzb?cher ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
