From owner-cvs-all Mon Apr 1 19:43:24 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57CCA37B420; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:43:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g323gxw20665; Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:42:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 22:42:59 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Paul Traina Cc: Mikhail Teterin , Jordan Hubbard , obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade.c media.c package.c In-Reply-To: <00e701c1d9e6$4ff44ac0$256b6fc0@shockwave.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Paul Traina wrote: > While keeping in mind what day it is today, has anyone considered making > packages compressed CD9660 filesystems which can be mounted by the > vndevice, and then layered/stacked into place with unionfs? It would > make for a very sexy and robust "real" filesystem. As long as the package tools don't require this to function. Mounting filesystems and managing vn devices currently require a high level of privilege, but untarring doesn't. It's a neat trick, but requires a lot more machinery than strictly necessary. On the other hand, if you feel like writing a command-line cd9660 tool with arguments that look like tar, fine :-). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message