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 4.54) id 1EnMlZ-0002v4-8J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:05:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBGL4w2f011028; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:04:58 GMT Received: from mout1.freenet.de (mout1.freenet.de [194.97.50.132]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBGL4wtc003565 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:04:58 GMT Received: from [194.97.55.148] (helo=mx5.freenet.de) by mout1.freenet.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1EnMl6-00081U-08 for gentoo-osx@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:04:56 +0100 Received: from p54b317f7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.179.23.247] helo=rincewind) by mx5.freenet.de with esmtpa (ID dirk.schoenberger@freenet.de) (Exim 4.60 #3) id 1EnMl5-0006LM-OF for gentoo-osx@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:04:55 +0100 Message-ID: <00b701c60284$146d8be0$14b2a8c0@rincewind> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dirk_Sch=F6nberger?= To: References: <59205.84.179.205.179.1134746227.squirrel@mail.sz-online.de> <20051216152450.GU4481@gentoo.org> <58032.84.179.205.179.1134747031.squirrel@mail.sz-online.de> <20051216174036.GW14948@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] New document: Project targets Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:02:40 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-osx@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-osx@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-Warning: sz-online.de is listed at abuse.rfc-ignorant.org X-Archives-Salt: 4d717a6f-88ba-4660-be9f-b4f741c06813 X-Archives-Hash: 1592d1e25b6ae43ac35c7909f71d6ba2 Hi, again some results from the unionfs theory. Seems the real problem is not the unionfs, which seems to work, but instead the problem to actually mount an existing file system as read-only. For Mac OSX seems to work only the was to eiter direct mount from CD, or to mount a disk image (.dmg). The missing link seems to be a "Null file system" (nullfs), which allows to mount a folder into another folder. Nullfs seem to exist on other systems, like FreeBSD, but not on Darwin (or at least it is not build and deployed). There seem to be some ideas in regards to being able to use a nullfs as a Darwin kernel extension (.kext), but these ideas don't seem to be finished / buggy. Sorry, doesn't seem to work that way. Regards Dirk -- gentoo-osx@gentoo.org mailing list