[Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#477788: copy-on-write functionality sought

[martin f krafft]

Package: schroot
Version: 1.1.6-1
Severity: wishlist

Using type=file takes ages to unpack the tarball on slow machines.
Maybe schroot could learn to copy-on-write?

This could be approached either with btrfs (which I have not
tested), or with fl-cow or cowbuilder's hackery (which I'd rather
avoid).

Or maybe a to-be-written fuse filesystem?

I will hopefully find some time to play with btrfs soon and shall
report.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages schroot depends on:
ii  libboost-program-options1.34. 1.34.1-11  program options library for C++
ii  libboost-regex1.34.1          1.34.1-11  regular expression library for C++
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.0-3  GCC support library
ii  liblockdev1                   1.0.3-1.2  Run-time shared library for lockin
ii  libpam0g                      0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libstdc++6                    4.3.0-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libuuid1                      1.40.8-2   universally unique id library
ii  schroot-common                1.1.6-1    common files for schroot

schroot recommends no packages.

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