Pilgrim, kadischi, and stateless (was Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] pilgrim livecd work)
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri Sep 22 00:47:25 UTC 2006
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 08:31:48PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 20:20 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 04:07:12PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> >
> > > Btw, If someone could talk davej into including unionfs into the Fedora
> > > kernel, we'd use that instead of dm-snapshot and we'd have persistence
> > > more easily solved [1].
> >
> > I think the comments Al Viro had on it the last time it was reviewed
> > were for the most part unprintable. I wouldn't hold your breath for
> > this to appear any time soon.
>
> Right. My understanding is that the controversial part of unionfs is the
> ability to join multiple writable file systems into a single tree. Is
> this correct?
tbh, since Al reviewed it unfavorably, I haven't even bothered looking at it,
so I'm the wrong person to be asking. But ISTR there were a number
of issues rather than one sticking point.
Al would be a better person to ask about the gory details.
Dave
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