Hi, guys! First of all, thank you for UnionFS. I have just started using it and I like it very much.
I'm going to make a UnionFS-based package manager and the most annoying thing is that I must have two different partitions, one being the root while another being the root overlay. I don't like this so I'm searching for other ways of using unionfs for the purpose. One of them is using a loop device instead of a separate partition as a read-write branch. But I'm really in question whether the suggested scheme is safe enough, so I'm asking you for the help. The suggested scheme is as follows $ mount -t ext2 -o loop /home/me/fs.img /mnt/loop $ mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/mnt/loop:/=ro union /mnt/union where /home/me/fs.img is an empty ext2 image while /mnt and /home belong to the root partition. Is the scheme is safe? Would such a scheme be safe if /home is a separate partition? -- Nothing but perfection pv _______________________________________________ unionfs mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/mailman/listinfo/unionfs
