[haiku-development] Re: alpha release window ?

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:38:59 +0200 CEST

Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm aware of AmigaOS' assign implementation. It's just that 
> > assignfs 
> > would only work in this case if you can lay it over say /boot/
> > common/ 
> > and still see the original contents that are there on disk. That's 
> > not 
> > something that need or could be solved by using the assign command 
> > in 
> > AmigaOS.
> There's no need to lay it over an existing path. You simply 
> (single-assign) mount assignfs at /boot/common and assign everything 
> you 
> need to it. As I see it, /boot/common should only contain bundles 
> anyway 
> (read-only assign).
> If you really need to have other stuff in /boot/common besides the 
> contents of bundles, you can always assign an extra directory to it. 
> This directory can then be the write target of the assign.

That would work more or less for "common", but not really for the 
user's config folder - I would consider the need to have an extra 
directory for this a kludge, at least given our directory structure.

Bye,
   Axel.


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