Re: [Xen-users] UnionFS + Xen

[mukesh agrawal <lists.xensource.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gino,

Mind if I ask a couple questions about your UnionFS setup?

> I've managed to come up with something pretty neat -- a shared base
> image with unionfs providing an overlay for a "delta" filesystem that
> allows each host to customize the image to their heart's content while
> storing only the changes (deltas).
Google turns up a couple projects using that name. Are you using the one 
from Stony Brook (http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html), or a 
different one?
> I customized the initrd process to union mount the baseroot filesystem 
> with the "delta" filesystem and overlay that as root.
Are there any pitfalls to watch out for in creating this initrd, or is it 
pretty straightforward?
Thanks,
mukesh


_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users