From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 15 15:25:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12367 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:25:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12360 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:25:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA60855; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:25:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:25:51 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199812152325.PAA60855@apollo.backplane.com> To: John Polstra Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: idea/help w. mirroring References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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. (Please include original email in any response) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message