Re: No to StowFS!

[Gianluca Guida]

Hi,

(CCing to gnu-system-discuss)

On 2/2/06, Leonardo Pereira <leonardolopespereira@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was thinking about why we need to merge all packages on the root
> filesystem is this is not a requirement of POSIX. Posix uses PATH to
> determine where the executable files are, lib directories are setted on
> /etc/ld.so.conf, others directiories of packages are not important to the
> system at all, only to the package, so, it can be on the "package directory"
> inside stow. The unique directory that I think that will need to be merged
> is /include. So, instead a translator that merges all the filesystem, what
> we realy need is a translator to change PATH and emulates ld.so.conf, so,
> you will have a very organized directory structure without break POSIX
> compatibility.

I won't enter the discussion of this, but you can always try your own
idea using unionfs --stow.

Infact, I implemented the whole stowfs as a collection of unionfs
translating basic system directories like /lib, /bin, /etc, et cetera.
Thus, you can decide to merge a singular directory without any
modification to existing code.

I would still like to inform you that my hacks on stowfs stopped
because I failed to get a stowfs'd system booting, so if anyone want
to volunteer on finding a (_working_) way to get that system booted,
(s)he would be my hero.

Gianluca


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