On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 10:01 PM, K K Subbu <kksubbu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 09 June 2017 06:38 PM, Guillermo Polito wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com >> When I asked it 2 years ago people were like: "oh, but you can just >> download 1 sources file and use it by all the images". I don’t care >> about that micro space savings, but fine, I said: have it your way. >> Now as we have to download sources all the time, why cannot we just >> have it IN the image? >> >> We can, but that's something that requires changing lot's of things >> inside the image and it requires probably lot of testing. >> > > What if the sources is appended to the image file with a special header. > New code can relocate this pointer on the fly. The same technique can be > applied to changes file too. A small script can split files for older code > or combine them for new code. > > The resulting image file will be backward compatible. New code can > preserve these files across saves. > > Just a thought .. Subbu > > Or perhaps MemoryFileSystem could be effective? But no rush. cheers -ben
