From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G3ZNK-0007YU-82 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:19:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6KEGN7l031256; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:16:23 GMT Received: from smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6KEGHAG016755 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:16:18 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with SMTP id k6KEGpT4025242 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:16:52 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:14:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] unionfs masked by x86 keyword? From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <44BF605C.6060909@gmail.com> References: <620cabe40607191841p406c6a17u64bbf23ee75b2030@mail.gmail.com> <620cabe40607191922k2105ffb2q3e5361f9993e01bc@mail.gmail.com> <20060720063121.116270@gmx.net> <44BF605C.6060909@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ddwFcLs+aAZEnGS8BbB0" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:14:14 -0400 Message-Id: <1153404855.19733.19.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-catalyst@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 X-Archives-Salt: f87ad4af-c8d2-4e08-8083-487702c15377 X-Archives-Hash: 173f396cbec0baff59d65e74b9dc010e --=-ddwFcLs+aAZEnGS8BbB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 10:52 +0000, Alex wrote: > Andreas R=C3=BCckert wrote: > > Is it faster during the boot? >=20 > I think it is, because it need not to copy the read-write image contents=20 > to tmpfs. I have never tested it, but that would make sense ;) Incorrect. Adding the unionfs package to the CD does exactly nothing but add the binaries and modules. It makes it only usable after the machine has booted. There is support for unionfs in genkernel, which means within the initramfs, but it is not functional right now and we simply don't have the time to look at it, since it's never been an advertised feature. Basically, if someone files a bug against it (without a patch) we mark it as INVALID and ask for a patch. We have contemplated many times simply removing the code altogether, since it is known to be broken, but we always hoped that we would scrape together some time to fix it. Using the in-genkernel code, it does boot faster. It also has a smaller memory footprint. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-ddwFcLs+aAZEnGS8BbB0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEv4+2kT4lNIS36YERAmM9AJ9gp3HBc5GBjwJu8BUs57op72fxEQCgoeUx f0ufQrDMa84tE96bOJhNNd4= =7UL3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ddwFcLs+aAZEnGS8BbB0-- -- gentoo-catalyst@gentoo.org mailing list