2007/1/18, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > unionfs + ramdisk + merging changes to USB on shutdown looks reasonable > > > for me. > > > > > > > Yes, this is quite straightforward for some things (e.g. configuration > > files and user data), but I think Michel is probably right about it not > > being so easy to keep the software updated. Although it would be > > possible in theory to merge changes back into the squashfs, this > > requires a lot of space and time for large files. > > Well, it depends how big USB flash drive use has. > I bought 1GB drive (Pretec Tiny Metallic) about a year (or more) ago > for 79$. Now 4GB costs 70$. > On large drives there's no need for squashfs. And software updates > will be OK, just don't forget to do pacman -Scc after each update.
There's still a RAM issue when downloading and unpacking packages. One of solutions that will lessen the problem is to sync ramdisk to flash filesystem right after doing -Syu and reload ramdisk then - updated files won't take ramdisk anymore and work can be continued (with enought space in RAM) without reboot. Just an idea, -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
