[Discuss] Persistent mode with Mandriva live CD

[Lionel Widdifield]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:12:52PM -0800, John Blomfield wrote:
> I am beginning to think that what you are looking for is impossible at 
> the present although a quick google yields threads of hackers trying to 
> achieve something similar.  Saving data to a pen drive is no problem but 
> updating packages and saving the results for a future sessions I think 
> is conceptually a problem.

 There are special purpose distributions made based upon SLAX (Slackware
based) that use a union filesystem with a tmpfs system for writing. The
packages are compressed into squashfs modules and "linked" into the unionfs
at runtime. By writing the tmpfs ,which holds all the filesystem changes, to
a new loadable module you can gain persistant storage. The system is
designed with usbflash drives in mind.

 


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