An idea for a new development model

[Walter Barnes]

From: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at ums.usu.ru>

>Walter Barnes wrote:
>> Has anyone considered using unionfs to create a fake root?
>Yes. The 6.1 CD was based on unionfs. Unionfs produces kernel oops if
>stress-tested or on SMP. Also, glibc testsuite doesn't pass if /tmp is
>on unionfs. So this package is now blacklisted.

Well that's not good. But thanks for the heads up. I was working on a package manager based on unionfs; I'll have to go back and rethink whether or not it's worth the effort. Maybe aufs performs better. As for the glibc issue, I can try restricting use of unionfs/aufs to 'make install'. It's only really needed for that anyway.

Thanks,
Walter


       
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