2007/1/18, Michael Towers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > 2007/1/18, Michel Di Croci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ... > >> That's too bad! Really, I preferred my way since I have real partition on > >> it > >> (can be viewed from my main computer). And I don't like the idea that in > >> the long term, I would have to recreate and rewrite all the config all over > >> again on the larch system since there is no way to load "configs" at least, > >> that I'm aware of. > >> > > I'm not sure what you mean by 'configs' here! > > >> The update can't be done on the usb key since it might come and take all > >> the > >> RAMs available and that you get "no more space" on the device so you cannot > >> keep you system up to date easily. Also, I forgot to unmount something on > >> larch and the usbkey start to be filled ... with things from the mounting > >> device I reached no more space pretty fast. Maybe I'm not too good with it > >> ;) > >> > >> But I know it's a good system! > > > > unionfs + ramdisk + merging changes to USB on shutdown looks reasonable for > > me. > > > > Yes, this is quite straightforward for some things (e.g. configuration > files and user data), but I think Michel is probably right about it not > being so easy to keep the software updated. Although it would be > possible in theory to merge changes back into the squashfs, this > requires a lot of space and time for large files.
Well, it depends how big USB flash drive use has. I bought 1GB drive (Pretec Tiny Metallic) about a year (or more) ago for 79$. Now 4GB costs 70$. On large drives there's no need for squashfs. And software updates will be OK, just don't forget to do pacman -Scc after each update. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
