[arch-releng] btrfs support in aif

[C Anthony Risinger]

i have some other responses to this message, but this for now...

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
>
> This is why softraid hasn't been implemented yet, nor btrfs.
> Also, I'm not very familiar with either one (although I am pretty
> interested in btrfs).
> I would need to know the most common/recommended use cases, and
> figure out the best way to implement them.
> Or maybe just provide a few predefined wizards for specific setups
> (but there are so many possibilities this would be unfeasible, I think)
>
> Or I need to take a different approach (see a bit above)

what if we created some kind of udev/blkid/etc. approach?  ie. we
write some custom udev rules to manage a special directory/update
files/touch files/run scripts/etc... as the system changes udev would
make sure AIF knows what the actual state is.

i'm not super adept in the rules syntax, but i know enough to be
dangerous.  it seems like we could leverage it in some way to take
care of all the dirty work... AIF just needs to monitor the <insert
here>, and verify against an identical copy it creates during the
install.  this would also let AIF adapt to any outside changes made my
the user with some grace.

C Anthony