Re: Hurd advocacy? Bootable (Knoppix-like) CD?
Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> Well, I think that the above procedure is mostly useful for diskless
> booting. For the CD Rom, a unionfs seems to be the better approach to me,
> as it saves a lot of RAM.
Right, unionfs should be well suited for this. Then you need at least
three filesystem processes: The cd-rom, a ramdisk (tmpfs or some ext2
on an image), and the unionfs. Which should be the root filesystem?
The ramdisk as root seems easiest, but needs some hacking to get the
image through the boot process to the ramdisk server. unionfs as root
seems a little hairy. The cd as root filesystem could also work,
either with passive unionfs and tmpfs translator settings on well
chosen nodes on disk, or with a startup script that installs active
translators.
Does it work to install active and/or passive translators, in
particular unionfs, on / ?
/Niels
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