[Fedora-livecd-list] RFC- 'persistance' is on LiveCD wishlist- what does it mean?

[Tim Wood]

Ideally, for me, there'd be a persistance configuration governing what is
persistant.  Examples:

1) User wants to carry their data with them but not install packages
2) Someone wants package persistance
3) Someone wants a way to do custom configuration and then lock it down


So, maybe you can do the following types of things:

* specify paths that are persistant
* specify whether those paths are modifiable (e.g. lock it down)
* specify package persistance


Maybe looking like this ... using a psuedo syntax that just hit me:

[persistant paths]
/home/user(rw)
/etc(r)

[persistant packages]
*

[persistant options]


I guess the config would have to exist as say /etc/persistance.conf and be
part of the persistant archive.  Then joe user could go in, and change the
/etc entry to (rw), reboot and then update a config file and then lock it
down again and reboot.

FWIW, this is somewhat similar to something I hacked together for a
customized Knoppix disk.

Timf Wood





On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:25:56 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen
<kanarip at kanarip.com> wrote:
> Douglas McClendon wrote:
>> Your preferred use case is certainly as valid or even moreso than the
>> one I presented.  But having both options seems ideal.  Also, there may
>> be an issue with usbflash data, and that in some instances it might be
>> better to have it be mostly preburned as squashfs, rather than treated
>> as a normal ext3fs.  I.e. the whole jffs2 thing.
>>
> 
> Well, I'm not against anything here, I'm sorry if it looked that way. It
> just doesn't look like it's worth the effort to me personally.
> 
>> Personally I rather like the idea of having my personal core system on
>> read-only media, with just my homedir on flash.
>>
> 
> Right, that makes sense. A home directory from flash would be nice, but
> it wouldn't be really 'system persistence' would it? yum install foo and
> yum remove bar will not have foo and will have bar after a reboot, right?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
> -kanarip
> 
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