Unionfs, has anyone tried this?

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troubleshootr | # 1 | 2006-05-08, 02:40 | Report

Has anyone tried installing unionfs? If you have multiple RS-MMC cards, you are able to save different "profiles" for each card. Root filesystem is extended onto RS-MMC. Seems to have simple install.

http://www.hczim.de/software/mmc-unionfs.html

aflegg | # 2 | 2006-05-08, 08:07 | Report

Yep, and IMHO it's a much cleaner solution than the symlinks one. Works well on both 2005-42 and 2006-13.

I've got mounts of:

/etc/others-menu
/home/user
/usr/share/themes
/var/lib/gconf
/var/lib/install

i.e. anything I may have customised but want to stay over a reflash. Arguably it also alleviate's the need for backup.

Cheers,

Andrew

troubleshootr | # 3 | 2006-05-08, 10:33 | Report

I did not think of the backup aspect of this. I will give it a go. Did you notice any preformance hit? Stability? Thanks.

aflegg | # 4 | 2006-05-08, 11:06 | Report

Nope, seems fine.

mrp | # 5 | 2007-01-16, 06:40 | Report

is unionfs compiled in scirocco (any use of trying unionfs)?

lmf | # 6 | 2007-09-18, 22:33 | Report

is there any version of unionfs working with the latest images? (770 or n800?)

thanks,