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authorHartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>2017-10-27 15:33:38 +0200
committerHartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>2017-11-08 18:23:06 +0100
commitd9565f7d8797d6ab826776c9ac3befdf20f73e05 (patch)
treef4b2627c45ff4e6ad960ee2a90653b6ed03d03d9 /gnu/system
parentc8289690365887ca1dd122645e479a89cf7cd969 (diff)
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install: Use overlayfs instead of unionfs.
I dediced to keep adding /tmp as tmpfs since I was not able to trigger bug while still using unionfs, so I could not verify whether this mount is still needed with overlayfs. Mapping /tmp to tmpfs does not harm, so we are on the save side. * gnu/system/install.scm (make-cow-store): Mount /gnu/store without additional read-only bind-mount, since in overlayfs the "lower" level is always read-only. Add work-dir required by overlayfs. No need to sleep anymore since now using the mount syscall. [unionfs]: Remove now unused function. (%installation-services): Update comment. (installation-os)[file-systems]: Update comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/system')
-rw-r--r--gnu/system/install.scm47
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scm
index eb362f91a8..f86410f522 100644
--- a/gnu/system/install.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/install.scm
@@ -71,19 +71,6 @@ manual."
"Return a gexp that makes the store copy-on-write, using TARGET as the
backing store. This is useful when TARGET is on a hard disk, whereas the
current store is on a RAM disk."
- (define (unionfs read-only read-write mount-point)
- ;; Make MOUNT-POINT the union of READ-ONLY and READ-WRITE.
-
- ;; Note: in the command below, READ-WRITE appears before READ-ONLY so that
- ;; it is considered a "higher-level branch", as per unionfs-fuse(8),
- ;; thereby allowing files existing on READ-ONLY to be copied over to
- ;; READ-WRITE.
- #~(fork+exec-command
- (list (string-append #$unionfs-fuse "/bin/unionfs")
- "-o"
- "cow,allow_other,use_ino,max_files=65536,nonempty"
- (string-append #$read-write "=RW:" #$read-only "=RO")
- #$mount-point)))
(define (set-store-permissions directory)
;; Set the right perms on DIRECTORY to use it as the store.
@@ -97,23 +84,21 @@ current store is on a RAM disk."
(mkdir-p tmpdir)
(mount tmpdir "/tmp" "none" MS_BIND))
- (unless (file-exists? "/.ro-store")
- (mkdir "/.ro-store")
- (mount #$(%store-prefix) "/.ro-store" "none"
- (logior MS_BIND MS_RDONLY)))
-
- (let ((rw-dir (string-append target #$%backing-directory)))
+ (let* ((rw-dir (string-append target #$%backing-directory))
+ (work-dir (string-append rw-dir "/../.overlayfs-workdir")))
(mkdir-p rw-dir)
+ (mkdir-p work-dir)
(mkdir-p "/.rw-store")
#$(set-store-permissions #~rw-dir)
#$(set-store-permissions "/.rw-store")
- ;; Mount the union, then atomically make it the store.
- (and #$(unionfs "/.ro-store" #~rw-dir "/.rw-store")
- (begin
- (sleep 1) ;XXX: wait for unionfs to be ready
- (mount "/.rw-store" #$(%store-prefix) "" MS_MOVE)
- (rmdir "/.rw-store"))))))
+ ;; Mount the overlay, then atomically make it the store.
+ (mount "none" "/.rw-store" "overlay" 0
+ (string-append "lowerdir=" #$(%store-prefix) ","
+ "upperdir=" rw-dir ","
+ "workdir=" work-dir))
+ (mount "/.rw-store" #$(%store-prefix) "" MS_MOVE)
+ (rmdir "/.rw-store"))))
(define cow-store-service-type
(shepherd-service-type
@@ -278,7 +263,7 @@ You have been warned. Thanks for being so brave.
(allow-empty-passwords? #f)
(password-authentication? #t)))
- ;; Since this is running on a USB stick with a unionfs as the root
+ ;; Since this is running on a USB stick with a overlayfs as the root
;; file system, use an appropriate cache configuration.
(nscd-service (nscd-configuration
(caches %nscd-minimal-caches)))
@@ -317,10 +302,12 @@ Use Alt-F2 for documentation.
(title 'label)
(type "ext4"))
- ;; Make /tmp a tmpfs instead of keeping the unionfs. This is
- ;; because FUSE creates '.fuse_hiddenXYZ' files for each open file,
- ;; and this confuses Guix's test suite, for instance. See
- ;; <http://bugs.gnu.org/23056>.
+ ;; Make /tmp a tmpfs instead of keeping the overlayfs. This
+ ;; originally was used for unionfs because FUSE creates
+ ;; '.fuse_hiddenXYZ' files for each open file, and this confuses
+ ;; Guix's test suite, for instance (see
+ ;; <http://bugs.gnu.org/23056>). We keep this for overlayfs to be
+ ;; on the save side.
(file-system
(mount-point "/tmp")
(device "none")