Re: [PATCH] add fake root support

[Vladislav Bogdanov <bubble-Awb4OmSD/41iLUuM0BA3LQ@public.gmane.org>]

10.11.2010 18:09, Jon Ander Hernandez wrote:
...
>> Which reminds me, that we should probably have the possibility to
>> concatenate several stages.
>>
>> root=nfs:xxx.yyy.zzz.www:/mnt|loop:test.img|live:blablabla
>>
>> comments?
> 
> I like this idea, it would be really useful.
> 
> But wouldn't this require some kind of union mount? I ask this because
> I have read Vladislav's patch, but I've been able to figure out how it
> sets/links the writable overlay. I'm missing something?

BTW I have a patch which skips writable overlay in liveimg completely if
'readonlyroot' is set in cmdline.

Will send it later when I port it to a git.

> 
> And if that is the case, I suppose that dracut will have to support
> different kind of union mount (unionfs, aufs, ...) till Valerie's
> Union Mount gets pushed into the kernel. Or could something be
> archived only using COW?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jon Ander.
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