Re: [Thinstation-general] Newbie: some questions

[TrevorB <tre...@us...>]

On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 17:35 +0200, Stef Bon wrote:
> 2011/3/28 Mike Eriksen <thi...@gm...>:
> > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Stef Bon <st...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> >
> > There is no doubt that FUSE is clever, but it is intended for general
> > purpose distros, not thin clients. Thin client are in many ways weird,
> > especially on insisting to be minimal.
> >
> 
> That's why I guess FUSE can be of any use!
> Because the way the root fs is constructed is as far I understand is
> not standard, 

Then I think you need to do a little reading on how booting in linux
works and the associated filesystems used... :-)

This is changing with the maturation of initramfs, but it's still in
flux. We will be changing to using initramfs shortly (removing the need
to do pivot_root and speeding up the whole boot process).

> like
> some resources are in RAM, other on a USB stick and maybe other on a
> Flash disk,
> making it act as one fs 

That IS what unionfs does. There is ONLY one filesystem in TS, but it
can be a union of multiple devices (RAM, usb, hd, etc.). And we use
squashfs because it is very 'slim' (good for use with filesystems in
RAM).

By choice TS remains in RAM and only uses local media for profile
storage.

I have loaded TS as a local filesystem on an ext3 disk, and it runs
fine. But that is NOT what a thinclient does.

We also don't have the package management functions that are required
for that style of operation.

Mini distros like puppy do.

> is something where FUSE fs and some scripts
> are very good at!
> 
> In stead of using various different fs's like squashfs and unionfs
> it's possible to
> do this in one FUSE fs.

I think you also need to read the fuse documentation a little better as
well.
> 
> This is not easy, but has maybe major advantages which make it worth to do.

But you are in luck. 2.3SVN has the fuse module compiled in, so all you
need to so is include a line in your build.conf
module fuse
and it will be included.

You will need to compile a fuse based filesystem package (or borrow one
from debian or some other distro), but then you can play to your hearts
content.. :-)

Good Luck
Trevor B
> 
> Stef
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