Re: GNOME universe
On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 11:45:09AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 11:47:24AM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> > >From what I've heard this becomes irrelevant in the HURD because it
> > has a much more sophisticated filesystem. You can "interleave" mount
> > points, so one partition can provide some of the files in /bin, and
> > another partition can provide the rest (once it's mounted). Perhaps
> > something like:
> >
> > mount /dev/foo1 / # For normal root files.
> > mount /dev/foo2 / # add normal /usr files.
> >
> > Though I have no idea how this is actually set up, and I don't know
> > how potential name conflicts are resolved...
This is correct, the actual command used will be "settrans" I think.
> What about WRITING to this mount point? How should the installation be done?
>
> mount /dev/foo1 /
> [install base system]
> mount /dev/foo2 /
> [install the rest]
>
> Nice. What about apt-get dist-ugprade?
Well, currently this feature, called "shadowfs" is not implemented, but if
it will be, there will be certainly a way to adress the individual layers of
the filesystem layout.
Thanks,
Marcus
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