Re: Persistant Cows

2007-04-12 Thread Marco Amadori
Alle 08:12, giovedì 12 aprile 2007, Daniel Baumann ha scritto: Hadar wrote: Another approach is to manage only one changes module. On boot this module is extracted to /cow (RAM), so following writes are made to /cow. On shutdown, this /cow is compressed again and saved on casper directory.

Persistant Cows

2007-04-05 Thread Juergen Fiedler
I was wondering... Does anyone have a good solution for keeping changes to a Debian Live system persistent? I see that Casper offers a few options, the most tempting being a casper-rw partition on the USB stick that I use to boot Debian. The only problem is that it is flash storage and may not

Re: Persistant Cows

2007-04-05 Thread Jonathan Hall
http://wiki.flimzy.com/index.php/Debian_on_USB I am using this system on 2 production LVS routers now, and on my home router... it still has room for improvement, but it seems to work pretty well :) On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 19:41 +0200, Lluís Gras wrote: I was wondering... Does anyone have a

Re: Persistant Cows

2007-04-05 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:30:31PM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: Alle 19:31, gioved?? 5 aprile 2007, Juergen Fiedler ha scritto: I was wondering... Does anyone have a good solution for keeping changes to a Debian Live system persistent? I see that Casper offers a few options, the most

Re: Persistant Cows

2007-04-05 Thread Tony Godshall
I've been working with similar setup, but with ext2 partition in usb stick, whithout journaling there are few writes to device. Also mount with noatime! Otherwise any read is also a write! Otherwise, yes, if you don't have swap and /var/tmp and /var/log and /tmp and swap using the flash