Bug#564045: O: flashybrid

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com>]

Informing -devel, just in case it is useful for anyone:

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:55:01AM +0200, Diego wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: normal
> 
> I have lost interest in maintaining this package. Just pulling it out
> of the repositories will vanish the code from the internet, which is a
> bad bad thing.
> 
> Since Linus is always right, I uploaded the full source + changes to
> github, so anyone who wants will be able to maintain this package can
> take over the project, and have the full history. The repository can
> be found at: 
> http://github.com/elcuco/flashybrid
> 

A few extra words about the package: it helps keeping most of the system
read-only, while still allowing a read-write remount occasionally and
such. A different (and nowadays more common) solution to a similar
problem is to use union mounts.

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