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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs
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On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 09:34 -0700, Scott Garman wrote:

> This would mean that if someone tried to put multiple rootfs directories 
> in the same subdirectory, they could clobber each other's pseudo_state 
> data, correct? Putting multiple rootfs directories in the same subdir is 
> a common use case already, I don't think we could break that.
> 
> If you appended the top-level rootfs directory name to ../pseudo_state, 
> e.g, ../pseudo_state_<dirname>, that would keep the pseudo_state 
> directories separate and make it fairly obvious what rootfs they 
> belonged to.

I'd wondered about this too. Can you use <dirname>.pseudo_state to make
the list sort better and help people with tab completion and so on? :)

Cheers,

Richard