From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 2 8:12:25 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan.algebra.com [216.254.65.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478FF37B505; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 08:10:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g32G9sFX078801; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:10:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Message-Id: <200204021610.g32G9sFX078801@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:09:54 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade.c media.c package.c To: des@ofug.org Cc: pst@pst.org, jkh@winston.freebsd.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2 Apr, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "Paul Traina" writes: >> While keeping in mind what day it is today, has anyone considered >> making packages compressed CD9660 filesystems which can be mounted by >> the vndevice, and then layered/stacked into place with unionfs? It >> would make for a very sexy and robust "real" filesystem. > > Yes, I've thought about it and am planning to implement it some day. There might already be something at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/fist/ and http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/research/software/ Why don't we have any of that stuff in /sys? It certainly looks cool, is not it? -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message