[haiku-development] Re: Package management - folder hierarchy
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:03:11 +0100
> However, since a mounted package-fs tree is immutable, we need to do
> something in order to make it possible to write settings and data files. I
> can see two possibilities to do so, one being to implement some kind of
> union-fs which would be mounted on top of a package-fs tree and which would
> copy-up all files that are opened for writing. The second approach is to
> restructure the filesystem tree to facilitate mounting of package-fs while
> still supporting writable settings and data files.
> We do not have a union-fs implementation currently (and during my research
> I've read educated comments about why those are surprisingly hard to get
> "right"), so I started looking into the restructuring approach.
Just a quickie, as I don't feel like reading the whole yet...
Are you meaning to let applications write to their app folder ?
This should be forbidden anyway, and is not supposed to happen with a multiuser
setup.
Also, how does it scale with respect to queries ?
François.
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