Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:26:05 +0930 | From | David Newall <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/7] [RFC] cramfs: fake write support |
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arnd@arndb.de wrote: > Many existing systems currently use unionfs or aufs for this > purpose, by overlaying a tmpfs over a read-only file > system like cramfs, squashfs or iso9660. IMHO, it would > be a much nicer solution to not require unionfs for a simple > case like this, but rather have support for it in the file > system. If people find this useful, we can do the same in > other read-only file system. >
I don't agree that it is nicer to do this in cramfs. I prefer the technique of union of a tmpfs over some other fs because a single solution that works with all filesystems is better than re-implementing the same idea in multiple filesystems. Multiple implementations is a recipe for bugs and feature mismatch.
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