Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
Douglas McClendon wrote:
Douglas McClendon wrote:
Theoretical Workaround #1-5
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Just curious; I like what I'm reading, although I do not follow some
parts of the theoretical workarounds, but: Is there any particular use
case for all of this? I'm asking, because the only thing I can think of,
it's all this work being done to prevent a user's "5-min-avg-uptime"
desktop from having to reboot after install from a live disc.
Short answer - dunno. I think however "5-min-avg-uptime" doesn't quite describe
it. The essence of why liveCDs are cool(==useful?) in the first place, is
because they allow users to try out the complete system, without the
traditionally complex and problematic process of installing and configuring a
linux system. I'm not sure if in 2001 I or Mr. Knopper could really have
foreseen the plethora of use-cases for liveCDs as they are used today.
In a similar vein, I would say that, perhaps this feature, which I'm just
working on out of pure spite for "unnecessary reboots" will spark someone else's
imagination, and use-cases will become more evident in the future. Don't even
get me started about seeing setroubleshoot suggesting that I reboot my system to
fix a problem...
Also, as to actual use-cases, clearly persistance-to-USB flash as already
described in the livecd-tools wish-list is _vastly_ more useful than all this
hackery. But as it turns out, implementing that involves mechanisms of the same
nature as these hacks. I'll segway that to...
Theoretical Alternate Implementation #1
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Utilize Mark McCloughlin's dm-snapshot merging patch alluded to here -
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StatelessLinuxCachedClient
That page, along with this one-
http://linuxgazette.net/114/kapil.html
should tie your brain in even more knots ;) Maybe by the time you've untied,
you'll have stumbled across some important use-cases that no one has considered
yet, because they didn't know it was possible.
-dmc/jdog
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