Re: Overlay merging

2008-02-27 Thread sfjro
Hello Marcel, Marcel Gerrits: > It would be nice if there was the opportunity to "approve" the changes > in the top layer and move those approved changes to the middle layer to > make them permanent. > > Is there something available to move between layers, or is that already > supported someh

Re: Overlay merging

2008-02-27 Thread Marcel Gerrits
Hello, I have a similar question: I have a setup like Michael described below. The main difference is that the top layer is in memory, the middle layer on harddisk and the bottom layer on a cd-rom. It would be nice if there was the opportunity to "approve" the changes in the top layer and move

Re: Overlay merging

2008-02-27 Thread sfjro
Hi, Michael Towers: > What I want to do is rebuild the layer2 squashfs with layer1 merged in, > retaining all relevant whiteouts. I can of course do this by copying > everything to a new directory and resquashing. But it seems to me it > would be much easier (and I suppose much quicker, as wel

Overlay merging

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Towers
Hi there, I have a feature request. I don't know whether it would be possible, or whether you have a better idea, but here goes. I have a three layer aufs mount, which is being used as the root fs: [top]layer1=rw(tmpfs):layer2=ro+wh(squashfs):layer3=rr(squashfs)[bottom] What I want to do is re