On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 10:59:19AM -0600, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
On Jan 3, 2012 8:51 AM, "Magnus Therning" <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
Ouch, that sucks. I'll just revert to making copies and wasting space then :(
If performance isn't that enormously critical I've used FUSE based union file systems in the past with success ... it worked well for my needs.
Do you know if it works with `schroot` though?
oh right, sorry i spaced off that you had mentioned the particular app you needed it to work for -- no, it doesn't appear to support it out-of-the-box. although, since `schroot` appears to just use mount with some custom -o opts, you could probably hack it in with a `mount.<union-or-aufs>` helper, or even patch schroot pretty easily if you really wanted ;-) looks like there are some btrfs options too, not sure it works for your use case, but you could format a file with btrfs and mount on loopback (man pages seem to suggest snapshotting will be used, and loopback FS are supported) btw, i believe i used this: http://podgorny.cz/moin/UnionFsFuse ... appears to be in AUR as well. -- C Anthony