Ok, ok, I lied.

It's really an overlayfs with a unique tempdir as the upperdir per boot / kick.

Unexpected state delenda est.

Follow Technova And Share

🌲 Satellite images from 2019 to 2026 have revealed alarming deforestation in Upper Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, especially around Sheringal’s Jatkool village

#KP #Deforestation #ClimateChange #Environment #ForestLoss #UpperDir

A mountain village in Upper Dir with autumn look.
#Kamal #UpperDir #LowariTunnel #KhyberPaktunkhwa #Pakistan

Lowari Tunnel, Dir Side; Road to Chitral
#lowaritunnel #Pakistan #Chitral ##UpperDir #Tourism #Tourist #KPtourism #Snowfall #Mountain

My NixOS /usr/local is now entirely differently structured. It is because I stopped trusting fuse-overlayfs after it wouldn’t return a file to gcc, even though I could access it with other programs.

I am now using the kernel’s overlay fs with just one lowerdir and an upperdir. I construct the […]

@smalladventures.net I just totally reworked my /usr/local and it is much better now. It has a simple kernel-based overlay filesystem now with just a lowerdir and an upperdir. I make the lowerdir by untarring all the packages on each other. They are of course made by two-stage install.

NixOS […]

All these sorts of filesystems are how live DVDs work, despite being on readonly media. You can make the DVD the lowerdir of an overlay fs and a tmpfs or some such the upperdir and workdir and another tmpfs the merged directory.