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authorAngelos Evripiotis <jevripiotis@bloomberg.net>2019-02-20 10:49:20 +0000
committerAngelos Evripiotis <jevripiotis@bloomberg.net>2019-02-20 14:07:24 +0000
commit54515138333a6d9f7131c47ee68c2589cedc9702 (patch)
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parent100067480c72af13dc594cf03ff0ec6c6051fca5 (diff)
downloadbuildstream-54515138333a6d9f7131c47ee68c2589cedc9702.tar.gz
doc/./arch_sandboxing: no OSTree artifact cacheaevri/doc_arch_deps
As of commit 1f8b4aa290a908a697f008a29ea143a9320dd639, we're no longer using the OSTree artifact cache. Update accordingly.
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@@ -163,12 +163,12 @@ support is available. If user namespace support is not available you have the
option of installing bubblewrap as a setuid binary to avoid needing to run the
entire ``bst`` process as the ``root`` user.
-The artifact cache on Linux systems is implemented using `OSTree
-<https://github.com/ostreedev/ostree>`_, which can allow us to stage artifacts
-using hardlinks instead of copying them. To avoid cache corruption it is
-vital that hardlinked files cannot be overwritten. In cases where the root
-filesystem inside the sandbox needs to be writable, a custom FUSE filesystem
-named SafeHardlinks is used which provides a copy-on-write layer.
+The artifact cache on Linux systems is implemented using a content-addressable
+hardlink farm, which can allow us to stage artifacts using hardlinks instead of
+copying them. To avoid cache corruption it is vital that hardlinked files
+cannot be overwritten. In cases where the root filesystem inside the sandbox
+needs to be writable, a custom FUSE filesystem named SafeHardlinks is used
+which provides a copy-on-write layer.
Some of the operations on filesystem metadata listed above are not prohibited
by the sandbox, but will instead be silently dropped when an artifact is