Hi,

> > > All other operations, especially package building, will take place in a
> > > unionfs-mounted directoy in a way that a temporary writeable directory
> > > is placed _above_ the base directy using unionfs, so that the programs
> > > have the regular view of everything, but all and any modifications will
> > > end up in the temporary directory. After the package was build, this
> > > directory can erased as usual.
> > 
> > A. do you have unionfs that actually works?
> 
> Good point :-). I tried during debconf, but failed. I thought that is
> was problem with the new GCC version. I will try to build unionfs maybe
> these days agan.
> 
> > B. There is already some works on this; 
> >   --no-targz.
> > 
> > pbuilder-uml uses COW file system, and has already had this feature.
> > I've not yet had an experience with usable COW/snapshot file system 
> > outside of user-mode-linux.
> 
> Ok, I obviously don't care with what file system this is implemented..

So there is blocker to this bug, which I have also been pursuing 
for the last few years; namely that of lack of COW filesystem that 
simply works.


regards,
        junichi



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