Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:25:51 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: idea/help w. mirroring Message-ID: <199812152325.PAA60855@apollo.backplane.com> References: <XFMail.981215132930.jdp@polstra.com>
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:On 15-Dec-98 Matthew Dillon wrote:
:
:> Hmmm. At BEST, we do a sort of stacking. We break the CVS
:> tree out into a source tree on a read-only partition. We
:...
:> When we need to make a local hack, we break the softlink. When
:> we update the underlying source, we diff any broken softlinks
:...
:I'm curious -- have you tried amd's "union" filesystem type? It tries
:to automate what you're doing. I've played around with it a little
:bit, but haven't attempted to use it on a large scale.
:
: John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
No, not for something this critical. I don't trust "union".
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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