It handles modifications to files, and not just wholesale replacement?? -R On Monday 13 September 2004 11:22 pm, Havoc Pennington wrote: > AFS has context-dependent symlinks that can also be used for this sort > of thing. > > Havoc > > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 23:14 -0400, Roberto Peon wrote: > > I sure like the idea of an 'overlay' fs. =) > > -Roberto JP > > > > On Monday 13 September 2004 09:02 pm, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 01:04 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > > It looks very promising, and reminds in part of fai, the Debian > > > > installer with centralised (and CVS managed) host configuration. > > > > Could some parts of fai (like the class based configuration file > > > > repository) be taken over? > > > > > > Right, the difference in the stateless model is that you'd want to > > > fetch the config files at runtime and keep them somewhere transient, or > > > assign them to a central install rather than a particular computer. > > > > > > Havoc