On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:04, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 03.01.2012 11:26, schrieb Magnus Therning: >> Is either of them easily available somewhere? >> >> I'd like to use the `union-type=` option of `schroot`, but so far it >> looks like I'll have to get a new kernel from AUR and compile aufs3 >> myself to set it up. Is neither of these rather useful filesystems >> available pre-built somewhere? > > None of these filesystems work with an unpatched kernel. None of these > are particularly fast or stable. None of these keep up well with current > Linux development. > > The new and shiny overlayfs has still not been merged into 3.2 and union > mounts development has stalled for a long time. > > It is 2012 now and the whole situation still sucks. We switched to > (block-based) device mapper snapshots in archiso, which is stable, but > far from optimal. This does not completely replace unioning and is > likely not a good solution to use with schroot. Ouch, that sucks. I'll just revert to making copies and wasting space then :( /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
