Philippe Lelédy wrote: > Not easy ! indeed. :)
> For now, I am using the aufs and live-initramfs feature that allows many > stacked filesystems R/O. > So little updates are easy to download (my main filesystem.squashfs is > 1.3 M !). > But it's all manual work. Having software in little independent pieces > doesn't fit well with what makes debian a robust system. jup. i was thinking of some sort of 'user sees that updates are available, fires up apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, and all the updates are stored into a partial squashfs image on the live media automatically' and 'user has a couple of partial squashfs images and lauches a command, which recompresses everything into one merged filesystem.squashfs again'. not sure if this is all doable during runtime, and without much extra storage. > Using /cow --> additionnal.squashfs (live-snapshot) just after booting > and adding one package is easy and clear way, but the > additionnal.squashfs is quite big because of debian global databases > that are duplicates in each additionnal.squashfs. yes :/ i wish aufs could handle incremential changes to files. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [email protected] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~daniel-baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
