Re: [Devil-linux-develop] 1.3.5 Query

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

The mount goes like this (as I recall from memory):
mount -t aufs -o dirs=/shm/etc-mods:/etc-cd=ro none /shm/etc

And /etc is a symlink to /shm/etc.  (left over from from previous 
releases)  I realize I could have eliminated the symlink and just mount 
it on /etc but I left the sym link there (seemed like a good idea at the 
time).  Maybe in a future release.

save-config now saves /shm/etc-mods since that's where the modified /etc 
files are stored.

Also read the CHANGES file; I explain a little more there.

Make sense?

 - BS

> Bruce,
>
> I just loaded DL 1.3.5 on VirtualBox without a etc.tar.bz2.  It comes up just fine.
>
> It seems we have /etc-cd  /shm/etc-mods and /shm/etc
>
> My first question is what is etc-mods - is that a default etc.tar.bz2 ?  If so I 
> would expect that to be empty.  It seems to contain a lot of stuff like for 
> example services all the postfix defaults etc etc.  It looks like you are 
> copying a default etc.tar.bz2 into it. I assume that's where your mystery files 
> are coming from.
>
> What are you intending there?
>
> I take it /shm/etc is just a mount point for the aufs - is that right?
>
> The way I envisaged it was that etc.tar.bz2 would be loaded into /shm/etc-mods 
> if it existed (otherwise /shm/etc-mods would be empty).
>
> /etc-cd and /shm/etc-mods would be mounted aufs on /shm/etc.
>
> Any config changes in /etc would appear in /shm/etc-mods and ultimately copied 
> to etc.tar.bz2.
>
> Dick
>