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Συντάκτης: Jaromil
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Προς: Merlijn Wajer
Υ/ο: devuan developers internal list, Ivaylo Dimitrov
Αντικείμενο: Re: [devuan-dev] Building derivative distros on the Devuan Jenkins CI
On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Merlijn Wajer wrote:
> > of course this is a problem also with the current amprolla and that
> > lapse of time between updates is only reduced, but still there. I
> > understand your code further reduces that possibility?
>
> How about performing a new merge in a different directory (if you want
> to reuse a part of the old state, cp/rsync it), and once the merge is
> done, simply rename the directories? Those operations are supposed to be
> atomic, so that should minimise this risk/downtime.


I was actually thinking the same. But there is a problem with move on
directories if there is any open file-descriptor in them. AFAIK it may
work better using 'mount -o bind' (just a wet finger opinion for now)

ciao