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Date:      Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:25:08 +0100
From:      "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        "Bernard Dugas" <bernard@dugas-family.org>
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size
Message-ID:  <3a142e750812161425n33dd186au710d1df08d65c4a7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49481468.7070601@dugas-family.org>
References:  <20081216094719.EDCEE1065675@hub.freebsd.org> <49478749.2030200@dugas-family.org> <20081216123057.M61117@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4947B50B.7010802@dugas-family.org> <20081216160327.N61449@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <3a142e750812160715p751483edh610a4adb055d31a2@mail.gmail.com> <49481468.7070601@dugas-family.org>

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On 12/16/08, Bernard Dugas <bernard@dugas-family.org> wrote:
> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>
>> On 12/16/08, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>
>>>>When you want to change something, you add a rw TransparentLayer :
>>>>mount -tl yournfsserver:/StationYchanges/etc /etc
>>>>
>>>>So that changed or added files are only stored in this rw partition, thus
>>>>very small and easy to manage.
>>>>
>>>>This would be a kind of partition inheritance, like in object
>>>> languages...
>>>>
>>>>Dreams are allowed :-)
>>>
>>>try mount_unionfs
>>
>> and mount_nullfs
>
> Thanks Paul, FreeBSD has always hidden treasures :-)
>
> MOUNT_NULLFS(8) doc is very detailled, but i can't find how to use it
> for my problem : being able to go from common shared configuration to
> specific private configuration.
>
> unionfs looks very close to my dream, but it is currently not available
> for production :-(

Well, I tested unionfs on CURRENT and it did not crashed on me. Feel
free to test it on 7 STABLE and report results to developers.

-- 
Paul



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