Re: live rootfs from squashfs and read write ability

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On 05/23/14 at 01:04am, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> 2014-05-22 13:59 GMT+04:00 Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > I don't think there's easy solution for read-write mount since it need stacked fs like
> > unionfs. But maybe you can try mount some folder as tmpfs such as /tmp, /var etc.
> > and only write to the specific folders.
> >
> > I imagine a simpe implement for unionfs specific for initramfs use..
> >
> > Thanks
> 
> 
> I'm try to implement overlayfs mount (backend squashfs, frontend tmpfs).
> Can you check https://github.com/haraldh/dracut/pull/20.patch or
> https://github.com/haraldh/dracut/pull/20 and give to me some
> suggestion, how can i best do this?

Sorry I'm not familar with livenet I can not comment anything now.
BTW, overlayfs is not in mainline kernel yet.

What I would like to see is something like squashinitramfs, a squashed initrd can be
automatilly recognized and union mounted while kernel booting without any userspace
hacks. But seems nobody is doing like this.

Thanks
Dave
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