[Voyage-linux] readonly/readwrite filesystem

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Not in this few days.  See my posting later today.

Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
> Well there be a tarball like the ISO, soon?
>
> Regards,
> Pascal de Bruijn
>
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 15:57 +0800, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
>   
>> No, not the same.  But you may check, the kernel may support it.
>>
>> Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
>>     
>>> Does this:
>>>
>>> http://www.voyage.hk/download/voyage/voyage-current.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Also use unionfs?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Pascal de Bruijn
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 15:35 +0800, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi Pascal,
>>>>
>>>> Down the voyage-current.iso and give it a try:
>>>>     http://www.voyage.hk/download/ISO/voyage-current.iso
>>>>
>>>> This is a demostration of live CD concept which will probably be 
>>>> deployed in 0.3.  The live CD is squashfs + unionfs.  The final 0.3 
>>>> distro would be similar. 
>>>>
>>>> I do not finalize the way it goes.  The current kernel in my development 
>>>> already support squashfs and unionfs, and I need more feedback and input 
>>>> on this. 
>>>>
>>>> - Punky
>>>>
>>>> Pascal de Bruijn wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I noticed the ro/rw problems has been solved by symlinks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anybody considered using tmpfs and unionfs? For example:
>>>>>
>>>>> /dev/hda1  ->  /      (ro)
>>>>> tmpfs      ->  /rw    (rw)
>>>>> unionfs    ->  /rw,/
>>>>>
>>>>> This would mean the whole filesystem would be writable, yet /dev/hda1
>>>>> would be read only. All changes to / would be written to /rw, instead
>>>>> of /dev/hda1.
>>>>>
>>>>> Using a script /rw could be synced to, say for example /dev/hda2, a
>>>>> seperate partition.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Pascal de Bruijn
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>     


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Punky

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