On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Jeremy Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > > Well, I don't know about other users of the live USB system, but that would be okay with me. A prereq. would be you have enough HD space to copy the image, update it, and then copy it back to the USB drive. Richard
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