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diff --git a/man/rofiles-fuse.html b/man/rofiles-fuse.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..50ce4ef1 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/rofiles-fuse.html @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>rofiles-fuse</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry"><a name="ostree"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>rofiles-fuse — Use FUSE to create a view where directories are writable, files are immutable</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">rofiles-fuse SRCDIR MNTPOINT</code> </p></div></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm45349829375056"></a><h2>Description</h2><p> + Creating a checkout from an OSTree repository by default + uses hard links, which means an in-place mutation to any + file corrupts the repository and all checkouts. This can be + problematic if one wishes to run arbitrary programs against + such a checkout. For example, RPM <code class="literal">%post</code> + scripts or equivalent. + </p><p> + In the case where one wants to create a tree commit derived + from other content, using <span class="command"><strong>rofiles-fuse</strong></span> in + concert with <span class="command"><strong>ostree commit + --link-checkout-speedup</strong></span> (or the underlying API) + can ensure that only new files are checksummed. + </p></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm45349828561344"></a><h2>Example: Update an OSTree commit</h2><pre class="programlisting"> +# Initialize a checkout and mount +$ ostree --repo=repo checkout somebranch branch-checkout +$ mkdir mnt +$ rofiles-fuse branch-checkout mnt + +# Now, arbitrary changes to mnt/ are reflected in branch-checkout +$ echo somenewcontent > mnt/anewfile +$ mkdir mnt/anewdir +$ rm mnt/someoriginalcontent -rf + +# Commit and cleanup +$ fusermount -u mnt +$ ostree --repo=repo commit --link-checkout-speedup -b somebranch -s 'Commit new content' --tree=dir=branch-checkout +$ rm mnt branch-checkout -rf + </pre></div><div class="refsect1"><a name="idm45349829458736"></a><h2>See Also</h2><p> + <a href="ostree.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">ostree</span>(1)</span></a> + </p></div></div></body></html> |