[Fedora-livecd-list] [RFC/PATCH] livecd rebootless installer

[Douglas McClendon]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Douglas McClendon wrote:
>> Douglas McClendon wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Theoretical Workaround #1-5
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> 
> Just curious; I like what I'm reading, although I do not follow some 
> parts of the theoretical workarounds, but: Is there any particular use 
> case for all of this? I'm asking, because the only thing I can think of, 
> it's all this work being done to prevent a user's "5-min-avg-uptime" 
> desktop from having to reboot after install from a live disc.

More specifically, as par my other reply-

One possible implementation of USB-flash persistance involves the same
mechanisms vis-a-vis-

You might want to make the snapshot overlay device begin its life as a broken
mirror or extra-dm-layer device, so that the user may _optionally_ at some point
during the life-cycle of the boot session, choose to live-migrate their system
changes to a usb-flash device.

-dmc/jdog