On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 01:16:23AM +0200, Marco Amadori wrote: > > > Use casper-sn, so a snapshot, it will write only once per session, at > > > reboot, resyncing the whole /cow onto it. > > > > Doesn't that one work by copying the files from the snapshot to /cow? > > I'm working with some systems that aren't too generously equipped with > > RAM, so I don't want to put more stuff on the ramdisk than necessary. > > Mmmm, time for another type of snapshots? > > Would you like a add on unionfs on boot (r-o) , then resync from cow at > shutdown?
I ended up doing something like that - just without the synching at shutdown. I put all the configuration files & such that I wanted to keep in an ext2 filesystem in a file and copied that to /live_media/casper. That way, it automatically gets inserted into the root union, and I can always mount it and ad more stuff if I feel the need. I found that that whole autosynching didn't work so well for me because it also preserved things that I didn't want to preserve, like information about my network setup - which made it somewhat hard to move the boot media between different computers. To make a long story short: I think modules in /casper are the right solution for me right now; it would be cool if anyone came up with a good approach for syncing the files in those modules conveniently, but for the time being, I thing I have what I need :) Thanks, all! ~Juergen
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