A way to boot with stowfs

[Praveen Arimbrathodiyil]

Hi,

 I think I have figured out a simple way to boot hurd with stowfs
enabing us to use stowfs. This would solve the unionfs-exec server
cyclic dependedency problem.

We can give the comeplete path for gnumach, ld.so.1 and exec (like
/stow/gnumach--ams--1.3pre21/boot/gnumach instead of current
/boot/gnumach ) to grub. The only issue I forsee is need to update
grub configuration for each of gnumach, glibc and hurd upates (the
longer path in the conf file is a minor issue I think).

I think grub has to load unionfs (stowfs) also.

ams, Can we try this with a stow only snapshot? I have tried it with
your last snapshot and it works.

Happy Hacking
Praveen
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[Alfred M. Szmidt]

    I think I have figured out a simple way to boot hurd with stowfs
   enabing us to use stowfs. This would solve the unionfs-exec server
   cyclic dependedency problem.

Thank you.

   We can give the comeplete path for gnumach, ld.so.1 and exec (like
   /stow/gnumach--ams--1.3pre21/boot/gnumach instead of current
   /boot/gnumach ) to grub. The only issue I forsee is need to update
   grub configuration for each of gnumach, glibc and hurd upates (the
   longer path in the conf file is a minor issue I think).

One could put something like that into /libexec/stopsystem.

   I think grub has to load unionfs (stowfs) also.

   ams, Can we try this with a stow only snapshot? I have tried it with
   your last snapshot and it works.

I don't understand.  If it works with the latest snapshot, why
wouldn't it work with another one?

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 09:25:32AM -0700, Praveen A wrote:

> We can give the comeplete path for gnumach, ld.so.1 and exec (like
> /stow/gnumach--ams--1.3pre21/boot/gnumach instead of current
> /boot/gnumach ) to grub. The only issue I forsee is need to update
> grub configuration for each of gnumach, glibc and hurd upates (the
> longer path in the conf file is a minor issue I think).

Should be possible to have something watching the relevant stow links,
and automatically adapt menu.lst whenever they change...

-antrik-

[Praveen Arimbrathodiyil]

2007/9/8, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@...>:
>    ams, Can we try this with a stow only snapshot? I have tried it with
>    your last snapshot and it works.
>
> I don't understand.  If it works with the latest snapshot, why
> wouldn't it work with another one?
>

Because

* We have not tested it with unionfs  (currently all files in / are
symlinks to files under /stow)
* You have promised a new snapshot when we figure out how to boot with
stowfs :-)
* We have an installer and we could make it work with stow if we have
a snapshot which uses stow
* TLS support to glibc is a important new feature to go for a new
snapshot I think
* We like new releases :-) Incremental new changes rather than waiting
for a perfect new system

Cheers
Praveen
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[Vikram Vincent]

On 11/09/2007, Praveen A <pravi.a@...> wrote:

* We like new releases :-) Incremental new changes rather than waiting
for a perfect new system

I second this.

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