[Fedora-livecd-list] Novell's "Split Image" LiveCD

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 02:44 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
> http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/kiwi-devel/2008-February/000324.html
> Due to the unavailability of aufs or unionfs, apparently Novell is using 
> something they call "split image" where every directory is writable.
> 
> I didn't look into the details yet.
> Anybody have any clue how this works?

Based purely on the mail, it sounds exactly like how the stateless rwtab
bits work.  Except with the added complication of xml instead of just
doing it with a text file ;-)

Jeremy