[gentoo-user] Re: Unionfs for 2.6.20

[gentoo-user] Re: Unionfs for 2.6.20

[Ali Polatel]

Konstantinos Agouros <elwood@agouros.de> yazmış:
> Hi,
> 
> will there be a unionfs for 2.6.20 kernels? AFAIK there's only the 1.5_pre
> for 2.6.19.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Konstantin

 You should use unionfs version 2.0 which is a part of -mm tree. You can
either get mm-sources or manually patch your kernel. Have a look at
http://www.am-utils.org/project-unionfs.html for more info..


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unionfs for 2.6.20

[Norberto Bensa]

Ali Polatel wrote:
>  You should use unionfs version 2.0 which is a part of -mm tree. You can
> either get mm-sources or manually patch your kernel. Have a look at
> http://www.am-utils.org/project-unionfs.html for more info..

But there's no unionfs-utils unless you're using sabayon overlay...

Regards,
Norberto
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unionfs for 2.6.20

[Norberto Bensa]

burlingk@cv63.navy.mil wrote:
> I have seen many people mentioning UnionFS.
> What exactly is it, and what does it do?
> (:P Besides the statement that it is an FS.)

Let's ask our friend: http://www.google.com/search?q=unionfs


http://www.am-utils.org/project-unionfs.html

Great for livecds (among other things...)


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Norberto
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[gentoo-user] Re: Unionfs for 2.6.20

[Ali Polatel]

burlingk@cv63.navy.mil <burlingk@cv63.navy.mil> yazmış:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Norberto Bensa [mailto:nbensa@gmx.net] 
> > Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 9:29 AM
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unionfs for 2.6.20
> > 
> > 
> > Ali Polatel wrote:
> > >  You should use unionfs version 2.0 which is a part of -mm 
> > tree. You 
> > > can either get mm-sources or manually patch your kernel. 
> > Have a look 
> > > at http://www.am-utils.org/project-unionfs.html for more info..
> > 
> > But there's no unionfs-utils unless you're using sabayon overlay...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Norberto
> > -- 
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
> I have seen many people mentioning UnionFS.  
> What exactly is it, and what does it do?
> (:P Besides the statement that it is an FS.)

quoting from wikipedia[1]:
    UnionFS is a Linux filesystem service which implements
a union mount for Linux file systems. It allows files and directories of
separate file systems, known as branches, to be transparently overlaid,
forming a single coherent file system.

    For example you can put your portage tree in a squashfs filesystem 
- which you can only mount ro - so that it'll take little space and create
a unionfs with it and a directory in /dev/shm to keep track of changes
between syncs[2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionfs
[2]: http://dev.gentoo.org/~jokey/squashed-portage-tree/


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RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Unionfs for 2.6.20

[burlingk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norberto Bensa [mailto:nbensa@gmx.net] 
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 9:29 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unionfs for 2.6.20
> 
> 
> Ali Polatel wrote:
> >  You should use unionfs version 2.0 which is a part of -mm 
> tree. You 
> > can either get mm-sources or manually patch your kernel. 
> Have a look 
> > at http://www.am-utils.org/project-unionfs.html for more info..
> 
> But there's no unionfs-utils unless you're using sabayon overlay...
> 
> Regards,
> Norberto
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I have seen many people mentioning UnionFS.  
What exactly is it, and what does it do?
(:P Besides the statement that it is an FS.)
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RE: [gentoo-user] Re: Unionfs for 2.6.20

[burlingk]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ali Polatel [mailto:polatel@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 10:46 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Unionfs for 2.6.20
> 
> 
> burlingk@cv63.navy.mil <burlingk@cv63.navy.mil> yazmış:
<snip>
> > I have seen many people mentioning UnionFS.
> > What exactly is it, and what does it do?
> > (:P Besides the statement that it is an FS.)
> 
> quoting from wikipedia[1]:
>     UnionFS is a Linux filesystem service which implements
> a union mount for Linux file systems. It allows files and 
> directories of separate file systems, known as branches, to 
> be transparently overlaid, forming a single coherent file system.
<snip>
> -- 
> ali polatel (hawking)
> Keep America beautiful.  Swallow your beer cans.

So, at this point in time it is not something
that I personally need to focus on.  That is
however usefull info.  I will keep it in mind
for when someone else asks the question later.
What is not 100% useful to me, may be just what
someone else needs. ^_^

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