Re: Xml in packaging system

[James Frazer <jfrazer@xxxxxxxx>]

I know it might be a cardinal sin to ask this [out of ignorance], but 
nevertheless I am curious.

I'm interested to know what your opinion on a database-type fs is?  I am 
not read up on the whole VFS idea, but a lot of the ideas you mention 
sound like they could be accomplished with a database-fs using simple 
masking.  However, I have a feeling that VFS is at more of a parent 
level than the fs implimentation itself.  I'm not making any bold 
suggestions (as your ideas sound great), I'd just like to know your 
opinion :-)


--James


Matthew Dillon wrote:


>     Note that the VFS environment I am contemplating does not take over
>     the entire filesystem space.  That is, in the above example, the mainstream
>     directories /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/bin would be selectively enabled
>     and/or modified within the VFS but other directories, like your home
>     directory for example (really all other directories not involved with
>     mapping operations) would simply be passed through.  You would have to
>     explicitly tell the VFS to map something as a union in order for the VFS
>     to record your modifications within that target.
>
>     In anycase, that is my idea... to approach it from the port maintainer's
>     point of view rather then from a technical standpoint.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>