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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] Re: union fs support
From:       Rafael_Espíndola <rafael.espindola () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-07-28 16:43:05
Message-ID: 564d96fb05072809435280c2f0 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 7/28/05, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> No.  It isn't.  We've added unionfs support for CD boots, not for normal
> installations.
> 
> Rafael, please check http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99682 for
> the initial patch we came up with.
I have just tested it with baselayout-1.11.13. I think that there is a
check missing after
ebegin "Unmounting filesystems"

fuser is killing everyone with
/bin/fuser -k -m -9 /newroot

(or giving a error if /newroot doesn't exist)

> As for non-CD unionfs support, I don't have a clue whether we would want
> that in genkernel or not.  Currently, we don't advertise the unionfs
> support in genkernel because it is still under heavy development and
> isn't guaranteed to work.
> 
> A good place to discuss this is actually on the gentoo-catalyst mailing
> list.
Will join it soon.

Thanks,
Rafael

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