Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> writes: > Maksym Planeta, le Wed 28 Mar 2012 20:42:07 +0300, a écrit : >> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> writes: >> >> > Ideally you should try to put a whole Hurd system on it, so >> > we can use it for liveCD and installer. >> >> Do you mean something like mounting ext2fs readonly and mounting tmpfs >> on top of it using unionfs? > > I didn't actually mean that, but put the content of the Hurd system in > the tmpfs itself. >
OK. I'll try to do this. > > The unionfs can however be an interesting test too. > And this too. >> > I don't see an "initial content" option in tmpfs. That would be very >> > useful, by e.g. providing a .tgz archive to be untarred at translator >> > creation. >> >> Nice feature, but couldn't it be implemented just untarring archive to >> specified directory? > > I didn't actually mean that tmpfs has to do the untar itself, it'd be > for sure way more flexible that it's an external process just using the > tmpfs as its root FS. Under external process do you mean that when "initial content" option is specified tmpfs calls function "system ()", that extracts archive? > I don't have the time to dig more, but I guess some statically linked > tar or some such in the multiboot sequence could manage to do the > work. But than why tar should be statically linked? Sorry, if I misunderstand something. Regards, Maksym Planeta.
