[Lguest] Aufs as blockdevice?

[Rusty Russell]

Earlence Fernandes <earlenceferns at gmail.com> writes:
> can you give me some pointers on how to go about implementing this?
> Why is it not possible to pass in a filesystem? Could I change the lguest
> userspace daemon to use a mounted fs rather than a file?
>
> -Earlence

Well, you need to implement a 9p server.

Eric would have more idea on how difficult this would be in lguest.

Cheers,
Rusty.

> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>wrote:
>
>> Earlence Fernandes <earlenceferns at gmail.com> writes:
>> > Can I specify a union mounted filesystem (aufs) as the blockdevice
>> > parameter for lguest?
>>
>> Well, the blockdevice parameter is a file, not a filesystem.
>>
>> You might want to use plan9fs, in which case you'll have to implement it
>> for lguest.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Rusty.
>>