Re: [Discuss] Cisco's IOx architecture

2014-02-02 Thread Richard Pieri
Tom Metro wrote: A good theory, but in this case I believe the database idea was mentioned with respect to what Qualcomm was planning to offer to the consumer market. Some sort of a resource to be used by your Internet-of-Things connected devices in your house. ... "What could possibly go wron

Re: [Discuss] Cisco's IOx architecture

2014-02-02 Thread John Abreau
Given the mention of IoT, I imagine the idea is targeted at home users who aren't IT professionals, and the aim would then be to provide "IT infrastructure in a box" for the home user who doesn't want to run separate servers for their IoT devices; for these people, it's probably conceptually easier

Re: [Discuss] linux on usb stick

2014-02-02 Thread Richard Pieri
casper has a maximum 4GB overlay file because USB boot only works with the first FAT or FAT32 file system on the device. I looked into ways to work around this but gave up. It's just not worth the effort. It's easier to use a real installation instead of trying to turn a live CD image into some

Re: [Discuss] linux on usb stick

2014-02-02 Thread Tom Metro
Stephen Adler wrote: > I'm working on building a linux system running off a USB memory stick. > ...the overlay partition or whatever the file system is which holds > the read/writable root partition is limited to only 4 gigabytes, which > makes doing updates to the OS rather frustrating. Presumabl

Re: [Discuss] Cisco's IOx architecture

2014-02-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro > > Is running applications on your router really such a good idea? Define "router," and define what distinguishes it from "firewall." Define "applications." It has been

[Discuss] linux on usb stick

2014-02-02 Thread Stephen Adler
Guys, I'm working on building a linux system running off a USB memory stick. In doing so, I'm using the various live CD fedora distributions to test how well this works. One bit which I've come across is that for some reason, the overlay partition or whatever the file system is which holds th