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

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> 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.
> 

Nice one! This use-case I recognise. I think, technically, the same
techniques could be used, and this is the make-my-system-live feature we
(Revisor) want. Great idea!

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
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