[Fedora-livecd-list] Persistance Overlay

[Pedro Silva]

Qua, 2008-06-04 às 14:46 -0400, Jeremy Katz escreveu:

> So, not ideal for more long-term cases as if you're updating with yum,
> then you'll run out of space on your snapshot before you'd expect as we
> overwrite things multiple times[1].

I update my personal spin just by building it again but there maybe some
cases where yum maybe used on a livecd for quick and small stuff.

> Which brings me to what I've been working on this week -- persistence
> purely for /home[2].  So rather than using the persistence file for the
> snapshot backing store, we instead mount it as /home[3].  At this point,
> it's almost to where I'm happy enough with it to push, so stay tuned for
> more details :-)

That's great news! :D

> [2] Actually, implemented such that you can have persistent changes for
> the "OS" as well as a persistent /home.  Then your /home sticks around
> when you update the USB stick but any "OS" change disappear as with the
> present bits

So, this means changes in /etc files (for example) are lost?

> [3] Including support for encryption

Sweeeet!

Thanks for your info!

Best regards,
-- 
Pedro Silva
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