[arch-general] unionfs or aufs, available somewhere?

[Magnus Therning]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:04, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 03.01.2012 11:26, schrieb Magnus Therning:
>> Is either of them easily available somewhere?
>>
>> I'd like to use the `union-type=` option of `schroot`, but so far it
>> looks like I'll have to get a new kernel from AUR and compile aufs3
>> myself to set it up.  Is neither of these rather useful filesystems
>> available pre-built somewhere?
>
> None of these filesystems work with an unpatched kernel. None of these
> are particularly fast or stable. None of these keep up well with current
> Linux development.
>
> The new and shiny overlayfs has still not been merged into 3.2 and union
> mounts development has stalled for a long time.
>
> It is 2012 now and the whole situation still sucks. We switched to
> (block-based) device mapper snapshots in archiso, which is stable, but
> far from optimal. This does not completely replace unioning and is
> likely not a good solution to use with schroot.

Ouch, that sucks.  I'll just revert to making copies and wasting space then :(

/M

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