On 3 October 2012 13:44, Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/03/2012 12:47 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> How many layers would a live system with multitude of >> squashfs images and multitude of persistence layers have? > > in the gnome-desktop case, that would be 3 > (base+standard+gnome-desktop), plus one for persistence (when using full > or only one-directory (home) persistence). > > so.. in the default (=official images) cases, below 5. that should work, > right?
That does not include the rw overlays. Still should not overflow any reasonable overlay implementation. > >> 2) composing multiple squashfs images is not always practical. > > we're not talking about 'allways', we're talking about 'defaults'. > > talking about 'default' means, that you'll allways be able to change to > one squashfs image if that's suitable for your use case. I don't see how well this fits with just building a custom image. You will likely not be able to reuse the 'standard' image from official builds. Generating multiple files increases size and other overheads, not decreases. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caomqctt6bprs4k9-yy0phxqhg6wmce5ca9trcwras9bsnuq...@mail.gmail.com
