daniel wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 8:08 PM, <p...@laptop.org> wrote: > > ssh host keys are probably generated on first boot as well. > > > > with partitioning support, it should be possible to have a r.o. root > > overlaid by a unionfs writeable mount, so machine-specific changes > > don't modify the released partition. this would make cloning quite a > > bit easier, i'd think. i have no idea what the performance hit of > > a unionfs setup would be, nor how such a partitioning would fit > > into the rest of the update strategy (e.g. olpc-update). > > unionfs isn't upstream and was quite unreliable last time I use it. > And it adds the challenge of differentiating state that must be > discarded for the cloned image, and state that must not be. > > For example, we would want to ssh keys generated during first boot to > *not* be included in the clonable image, that's obvious. But if the > user boots the OLPC image, goes into the control panel and sets a > language, then we *do* want that language change to be included in the > clonable image that is the output of the process. > > How would the system differentiate between those two?
i dunno. i guess the lead engineer on the project would have to decide. :-) paul =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org give one laptop, get one laptop --- http://www.laptop.com/xo _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel