On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:03 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jeremy Katz (katzj@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 18:24 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Apps running in the second stage may expect to have 'normal' files in > > > /etc or /var. By staging it this way, they can just be kept in the > > > second stage, and copied to the first stage at runtime, rather than > > > having to keep them in the first stage. We can't symlink to > > > /mnt/runtime/etc or /mnt/runtime/var, because the second stage isn't > > > writable. /etc/selinux is still symlinked, because it's huge. > > > > What needs something to be writable under /etc at runtime? > > The problem isn't writable, the problem is that it needs to be *there* > under /etc. As it stands now, things in /mnt/runtime either need modified > to look in a different /etc/, or have their required /etc files installed > in stage1. Oh, I think I'm following you now. Because there's now /etc in stage1 and stage2 and different things need from one vs the other? What if we just had a copy of the files which are in the initrd in both places. Then we could just move over /mnt/runtime/etc like we do today. I can't imagine the space hit being that significant Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
