[Fedora-livecd-list] Anyone using the overlay file?
Daire Byrne
Daire.Byrne at framestore.com
Thu Jan 22 17:54:27 UTC 2009
----- "Jeremy Katz" <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> > We use "aufs" to union a COW filesystem for our custom "Live"
> system. It does seem a little odd that many of the other distros now
> use a union filesystem approach to LiveCDs and NFS read-only roots but
> Fedora has for the time being stayed away from it. It's not like there
> isn't lots of custom stuff being put into fedora/redhat kernels that
> isn't yet upstream. In fact there was a discussion about getting
> UnionFS upstream recently on the kernel list....
>
> A discussion that went nowhere fast. Just like every previous
> discussion of unionfs. And actually, we're _very_ resistent to
> adding not-upstreamed stuff into the Fedora kernels. Things that are in an
> appropriate staging tree? Yeah. But unionfs isn't even there
I have been playing around with the 2.6.28 fc10 kernel from Koji:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=79697
It looks like it has the UnionFS patches included. Maybe it'll drop out of a
final release though.
Daire
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