[6461] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Login chroots
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Fri Oct 9 15:14:15 2009
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:14:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
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On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> Running updates inside a temporary snapshot could do all sorts of bad
> things like restart daemons inside the snapshot.
Isn't this what policy-rc.d is for?
> [snip]
> However, I think this is too much work to think about right now, and we
> should move ahead with aufs without concurrent updates as soon as
> possible.
Agreed. At the release-team meeting we've concluded that it's fine not to
have concurrent updates and we don't currently want them for n reasons; I
just want to point out that if we ever revisit that decision, we're not
losing functionality by switching to aufs.
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Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
