[Fedora-livecd-list] Persistance Overlay

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 20:58 +0100, Pedro Silva wrote:
> Qua, 2008-06-04 às 15:46 -0400, Jeremy Katz escreveu:
> > On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 13:28 -0600, Tim Wood wrote:
> > > Jeremy Katz wrote: 
> > > > But at the same time, I am considering adding some form of hook to run a
> > > > script off of /home during the boot so that you could implement making
> > > > any changes you wanted.  Just not sure if it's overkill.
> > >
> > > Why not put the hook in the fedora-live init script?
> > 
> > That's actually where all of this magic lives (well init script +
> > livecd-iso-to-disk).  Like I said, just not entirely sure if it's
> > overkill to try to support or not
>
> I'm in favor of a solution that would include /home and other system
> folders. Since I have no real understanding of the inner workings of
> livecd-iso-to-disk, I don't know how hard that would be. I find it
> usefull to keep some changes in /etc files but there are other files
> too. Would this have to include a "blacklist" for stuff
> like /tmp, /var/cache ?

The problem is there's no good way to define what is a "system file".
Not to mention that if you update a package, you may want to get its new
config files.  Perhaps at some point, we'll be able to use something
other than dm-snapshot for our persistence, at which point, we'll have
some more options.  But for now, it's what we've got

Jeremy