Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Monday 29 January 2007 03:30 pm, Dave Miner wrote: > >> The devil, of course, is in the details, and there are a lot of them >> here. Heck, while working on updating the Live Media project code to >> work with snv_55 I just found over the weekend that Gnome 2.16's trying >> to write font caches into a bunch of paths under /usr after initial boot >> (and doesn't work at all without it), which I don't believe even works >> with our read-only /usr for diskless clients. God knows the Live Media >> project would be a lot easier if we already had this ;-) >> > > Dave, > > The way I think about this, Gnome would still be able to update /usr, given > root access, just that it would be laid over the top of what was a read-only > FS. A user might still need to change a file/binary, sendmail being the > classic example I 'spose. > > In this scenario, you would always be guaranteed to have a clean bootable > filesystem, since it is treated as a ROM. Only that it can actually be > updated. > > I suspect this wouldn't be a simple project, it would take some thought. >
You are talking about UnionFS here. It should be a good project to port the FreeBSD version of UnionFS along with a set of external patches that fix existing shortcomings. Regards, Moinak.
