Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 18:35:47 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: idea/help w. mirroring Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812151835000.27793-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <199812152325.PAA60855@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :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". > Your eye's may have played tricks on you like mine did, he's talking about some option of AMD (i assume the automounter), not union_fs :) Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current > -Matt > > Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet > Communications & God knows what else. > <dillon@backplane.com> (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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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