ROFILES-FUSE(1)

NAME
rofiles-fuse - Use FUSE to create a view where directories are writable, files are immutable

SYNOPSIS

rofiles-fuse SRCDIR MNTPOINT

DESCRIPTION

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 %post scripts or equivalent.

In the case where one wants to create a tree commit derived from other content, using rofiles-fuse in concert with ostree commit --link-checkout-speedup (or the underlying API) can ensure that only new files are checksummed.

EXAMPLE: UPDATE AN OSTREE COMMIT

    # 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

SEE ALSO

ostree(1)