Philippe -- here is a link you might like - HOWTO: VirtualBox USB Testing on Linux Host
How to expose your USB to VirtualBox on Linux Host http://www.hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=15664 And it's written by a Slitaz user, too! On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 28/12/2010 19:51, Philippe Lelédy wrote: >>> I will try "keep-loram" which means "don't copy roofs.gz in RAM". >>> >> >> It does work. >> >> cat /proc/cmdline >> initrd=../initfs-lz-330LC keep-loram loram=LABEL=p1-liveOSs >> >> mount >> rootfs on / type rootfs (rw) >> tmpfs on /mnt type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=454112k) >> /dev/sdb3 on /mnt/.cdrom type ext2 (ro,relatime,barrier=1,data=writeback) >> /dev/loop0 on /mnt/.fs.gz type squashfs (ro,relatime) >> none on / type aufs (rw,relatime,si=3eb61ca6) >> >> sudo losetup >> /dev/loop0: 0 /mnt/.cdrom/rootfs.gz >> >> At last, I have now, with only one system, the choice, like I had with >> Slax: if enough RAM, compressed FS is copied in RAM, if not it's remains >> on USB. Without this feature, it would have been impossible to add more >> packages. > > The root filesystem is *always* writeable thanks to aufs. > >> Next feature request: this is like loram-ram is no more useful because >> loram-smallcdrom provides the same functionality + the ability to run >> from the usb; perhaps it's time to merge with the third way of booting: >> it should be possible to expand the squashfs.xz and obtains the same >> functionality as RAM mode. Should unsquashfs be more expensive than >> unlzma done by kernel. > > Why ? / is writeable and files under / look *exactly* like a filesystem > uncompressed by then kernel unlzma. > >> BTW, why speak of loram as flavors ?. They are not flavors, but >> variations about the way to use storage. > > Because pre 3.0 loram was flavors only > (http://hg.slitaz.org/flavors/file/tip, squashed /usr + optional aufs). > Now we have tazlitobox flavors too (squashed / + aufs). > > -pascal > > > --- > SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/ > > --- SliTaz GNU/Linux Mailing list - http://www.slitaz.org/
