Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Anyone using the overlay file?

[Daire Byrne <Daire Byrne framestore com>]

----- "Jeremy Katz" <katzj redhat com> wrote:

> > We use "aufs" to union a COW filesystem for our custom "Live"
> system. It does seem a little odd that many of the other distros now
> use a union filesystem approach to LiveCDs and NFS read-only roots but
> Fedora has for the time being stayed away from it. It's not like there
> isn't lots of custom stuff being put into fedora/redhat kernels that
> isn't yet upstream. In fact there was a discussion about getting
> UnionFS upstream recently on the kernel list....
> 
> A discussion that went nowhere fast.  Just like every previous
> discussion of unionfs.  And actually, we're _very_ resistent to
> adding not-upstreamed stuff into the Fedora kernels.  Things that are in an
> appropriate staging tree?  Yeah.  But unionfs isn't even there

I have been playing around with the 2.6.28 fc10 kernel from Koji:

  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=79697

It looks like it has the UnionFS patches included. Maybe it'll drop out of a
final release though.

Daire