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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

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> 
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