On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 08:43 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Also, after reading a previous post on this list, I would keep updates > >> to only things you care about since the overlay file records block > >> changes and you will eventually run out of overlay. > > This is the case and unfortunately, with things currently in the kernel, > > I don't really see any way around it. Modulo writing some tool to > > (likely offline) analyze and rewrite the snapshot file. But relatively > > deep dark voodoo required to write such a tool > > I don't know if this would be easier, but what about a tool that would > incorporate the changes back into the image file and then re-zero the > overlay?
The problem is that incorporating the changes back in basically boils down to "make a new image". Which isn't that difficult to do, it's just a matter of having the disk space for it and also the time -- it'd largely just be a matter of running good chunks of the livecd image creation process over again. Jeremy -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list