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This prevents people from creating new directories there and expecting them to be persisted. The OSTree model has all local state to be in /etc and /var. This introduces a compile-time dependency on libe2fsprogs. We're only doing this for the root directory at the moment. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728006
OSTree is a tool for managing bootable, immutable, versioned filesystem trees. While it takes over some of the roles of tradtional "package managers" like dpkg and rpm, it is not a package system; nor is it a tool for managing full disk images. Instead, it sits between those levels, offering a blend of the advantages (and disadvantages) of both.
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