Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] DL configuration

[Bruce S. <br...@ar...>]

> > Another advantage of doing this is the size of the config file saved to
> > the floppy/usb would be a LOT smaller!
> Disadvantage of that exists also. Our boot logic based on the config file
> searching and parsing config files. If it was union/au fs based solution I'm not
> sure we will able to keep the logic unchanged.

Right, we would have to change the boot process to mount /etc from CDROM
and then mount the unionfs on top of that and untar the changes there.  

We'd also have to change save-config to only save the unionfs.  There
would also have to be changes to the "upgrade to a new release" logic.

This may also make 1.2 and 1.4 not compatible with each other's config.
So, I guess this is a good time to do it, if we're going to.

I guess it comes down to asking Heiko if this is the direction we want
to go?  I think it's a nice solution to be managing changes in /etc and
making the saved config much smaller.  Much better than tar'ring up some
of the large, rarely used, packages in /etc and putting them on the CD
(as we talked about doing some time ago).

If Heiko okay's this change, I'll volunteer to do the work.  Heiko?? :-)

 - BS