On Wednesday 06 May 2009, 18:25:58, Nicolas Turpault wrote: > To remove files aufs use whiteout and create empty files (with the > patern .wh.namefile) in the copy-on-write directory. To keep remove > files we just have to copy the snapshot in the copy-on-write directory > before mounting the root in aufs. > > So, is there a reason to copy the snapshot in the root directory instead > of the cow directory?
Yes, to not depend upon the "union" system in use, which could be aufs, unionfs (in earleier version LVM snapshots too) or nextUFS. However a list of file to be removed could be included in some way to the snapshot and have the code to take care of removing those files too, in a union-type agnostic way. -- ESC:wq -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
