[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#710073: Bug#710073: Bug#710073: Bug#710073: sbuild: add copy-on-write support

[Roger Leigh]

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 02:00:05PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 10:15:07AM -0700, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> 
> >> Hasn't overlayfs support been in schroot since 1.5.2-1 (May 2012)? I
> >> don't think any more support is needed on the sbuild side. Ubuntu
> >> seems to be making active use of overlayfs chroots -- mk-sbuild from
> >> ubuntu-dev-tools 0.136 (November 2011) onwards makes them, and they
> >> carry no patches to schroot and no relevant patches to sbuild.
> 
> Might be nice if the "type=" description in schroot.conf referenced the
> "filesystem union chroot" options section as applying to "directory"
> chroots?  They sound rather unappealing compared to the snapshot options
> there.

Just to be sure.  Are you referring to the examples in the template
schroot.conf that's installed by default?  This is a bit outdated
and doesn't cover everything; if you wish to provide an update for
it that would be appreciated.


Regards,
Roger

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