[Voyage-linux] 'ro' changes in version .5 onwards

[Voy User]

This is what I am trying to understand.

As per my understanding this is how stuff used to work in 0.3
- Whatever you needed writable was stored in the image itself in
/ro. For eg a config file you needed which was supposed to be in
/etc/prod/prod.conf - the base version was stored in /ro/etc/prod/prod.conf
- /rw was empty in the image
- the actual /etc/prod was a soft link to /rw/etc/prod
- At boot time, /etc/init.d/mountall.sh has line 
tar -C /ro -cf - .  tar -C /rw -xf - 
So at booting everying in /ro was copied to the empty /rw
directory. 

Let me know if I am mistaken in my above understanding.

In 0.6.5, there isn't any /ro directory in the image.
There is an empty /rw.

There is no tar line in mountall.sh

So how will this work in 0.6.5?



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
> Sent: 12/14/10 03:12 PM
> To: Voy User
> Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] 'ro' changes in version .5 onwards
> 
> Change log is here, but not very precise.
> 
> http://svn.voyage.hk/repos/voyage/branches/voyage-live/0.6.5/config/chroot_local-includes/CHANGELOG
> 
> There was a couple of announcements in mailing list and in linux.voyage.hk talking about major change to ro/rw starting 
> in 0.6.0 series.
> 
> Regards,
> Punky
> 
> On 12/14/2010 3:56 PM, Voy User wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am planning a major upgrade from 0.3.x to 0.6.5 of voyage. Using it from a Compact Flash.
> >
> > I was looking at http://wiki.voyage.hk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=how_do_i_change_the_hostname
> >
> > and it says
> >
> > " in 0.5 you need to edit
> >
> > /etc/hostname
> >
> > the /ro/etc/hostname has no effect
> >
> > "
> >
> >
> > My question isn't particular to hostname, but I was wondering if there is some big change
> >
> > in the ro filesystem between 0.3 & 0.5 (& hence 0.6.5) because of which /ro/etc/hostname
> >
> > has no effect? Where can I find some documentation about this?
> >
> >
> > Also where can I find information about all changes which went in between each of the
> >
> > major releases from 0.3 onwards?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Punky
> 
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