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author | Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> | 2017-04-14 10:34:38 -0400 |
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committer | Atomic Bot <atomic-devel@projectatomic.io> | 2017-04-24 16:09:51 +0000 |
commit | 55603a0c5201278ea12b052abbe84ac856b3b657 (patch) | |
tree | 977ba0752cbbd9e74ab04ad169f2bb3c90a6dd74 /docs | |
parent | 0c4aeff1cbed1c97f3461706f2d360d8c08b5183 (diff) | |
download | ostree-55603a0c5201278ea12b052abbe84ac856b3b657.tar.gz |
Rename "osname" → "stateroot"
I never really liked the term "osname". I feel "stateroot" is a *lot* clearer,
since the osname/stateroot mostly just holds `/var`. Further it avoids the `os`
prefix which is already overloaded.
Some of the existing docs already talked about "operating system state", which
further reinforces this.
There's *lot* more things than this which reference the term "osname", but I
don't want to change *everything* yet in this patch in case we decide to do
something different - this just gets the highlights.
Closes: #794
Approved by: jlebon
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/atomic-upgrades.md | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/deployment.md | 25 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | docs/manual/introduction.md | 2 |
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/docs/manual/atomic-upgrades.md b/docs/manual/atomic-upgrades.md index a60656a8..341372d0 100644 --- a/docs/manual/atomic-upgrades.md +++ b/docs/manual/atomic-upgrades.md @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ checking it back out of the repo into a deployment. ## Assembling a new deployment directory Given a commit to deploy, OSTree first allocates a directory for -it. This is of the form `/boot/loader/entries/ostree-$osname-$checksum.$serial.conf`. +it. This is of the form `/boot/loader/entries/ostree-$stateroot-$checksum.$serial.conf`. The `$serial` is normally `0`, but if a given commit is deployed more than once, it will be incremented. This is supported because the previous deployment may have diff --git a/docs/manual/deployment.md b/docs/manual/deployment.md index 51554c4f..76d05701 100644 --- a/docs/manual/deployment.md +++ b/docs/manual/deployment.md @@ -8,23 +8,24 @@ operating systems (accessible via `ostree admin`). The core content of these op are treated as read-only, but they transparently share storage. A deployment is physically located at a path of the form -`/ostree/deploy/$osname/deploy/$checksum`. +`/ostree/deploy/$stateroot/deploy/$checksum`. OSTree is designed to boot directly into exactly one deployment at a time; each deployment is intended to be a target for `chroot()` or equivalent. -### "osname": Group of deployments that share /var +### "stateroot" (AKA "osname"): Group of deployments that share /var -Each deployment is grouped in exactly one "osname". From above, you -can see that an osname is physically represented in the -`/ostree/deploy/$osname` directory. For example, OSTree can allow -parallel installing Debian in `/ostree/deploy/debian` and Red Hat -Enterprise Linux in `/ostree/deploy/rhel` (subject to operating system -support, present released versions of these operating systems may not -support this). +Each deployment is grouped in exactly one "stateroot" (also known as an "osname"); +the former term is preferred. -Each osname has exactly one copy of the traditional Unix `/var`, -stored physically in `/ostree/deploy/$osname/var`. OSTree provides +From above, you can see that an stateroot is physically represented in the +`/ostree/deploy/$stateroot` directory. For example, OSTree can allow parallel +installing Debian in `/ostree/deploy/debian` and Red Hat Enterprise Linux in +`/ostree/deploy/rhel` (subject to operating system support, present released +versions of these operating systems may not support this). + +Each stateroot has exactly one copy of the traditional Unix `/var`, +stored physically in `/ostree/deploy/$stateroot/var`. OSTree provides support tools for `systemd` to create a Linux bind mount that ensures the booted deployment sees the shared copy of `/var`. @@ -81,7 +82,7 @@ files. When a tree is deployed, it will have a configuration file generated of the form -`/boot/loader/entries/ostree-$osname-$checksum.$serial.conf`. This +`/boot/loader/entries/ostree-$stateroot-$checksum.$serial.conf`. This configuration file will include a special `ostree=` kernel argument that allows the initramfs to find (and `chroot()` into) the specified deployment. diff --git a/docs/manual/introduction.md b/docs/manual/introduction.md index c88d6c14..6cde8ddd 100644 --- a/docs/manual/introduction.md +++ b/docs/manual/introduction.md @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ parallel install inside an existing OS or distribution occupying the physical `/` root. On each client machine, there is an OSTree repository stored -in `/ostree/repo`, and a set of "deployments" stored in `/ostree/deploy/$OSNAME/$CHECKSUM`. +in `/ostree/repo`, and a set of "deployments" stored in `/ostree/deploy/$STATEROOT/$CHECKSUM`. Each deployment is primarily composed of a set of hardlinks into the repository. This means each version is deduplicated; an upgrade process only costs disk space proportional to the |