[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [3550] Kill unionfs support

Sat Mar 24 20:21:35 CET 2012

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 16:07, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com>wrote:
+
+> On 18 March 2012 10:51, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > Well unionfs seemed to get different oops in each new version. Anyway
+> > I don't think it should be done like this (having specific code for
+> > unionfs everywhere).
+> > I want to improve current chroot mode (like using a cgroup to easily
+> > kill all processes or set limits) and have a common api to allow other
+> > modes, like building in kvm for example, or using lvm/btrfs rw
+> > snapshots (which should be better supported than unionfs).
+>
+> Then, we could maybe clean this in Chroot.pm:
+>
+> sub add_local_user {
+>    my ($chroot_tmp, $run, $config, $luser, $uid) = @_;
+>
+>    # change the builder user to the local user id
+>    # FIXME it seems that unionfs does not handle well the change of the
+>    #       uid of files
+>    # if (system(qq|sudo chroot $chroot_tmp usermod -u $run->{uid}
+> builder|)) {
+>
+> Though sadly we lost the actual commit that did that due to the 2007 crash
+>
+
+Yes I noticed but this is a behavior change so I wanted to check more
+closely before doing it, if nothing relies on it
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