On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Frederick Grose <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Mel Chua <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm going to have to miss today's meeting, but as an update on my task >> from last week: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1798#comment:22 > > > See this comment added to http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1798#comment:23 : > > School-based deployments may want to take advantage of the persistent /home/ > directory installation instead of the persistent OS overlay. The persistent > home folder is not a write-once, ever-diminishing storage space. > > For consistency and stability reasons, the school may want to leave out the > persistent OS overlay (using a temporary overlay on each boot) and just use > the persistent /home/ directories to save the Learners' Journals and > settings. > > If a school-wide system change were desired, the Sticks could be upgraded > with a simple exchange of the /LiveOS/squashfs.img file in the base file > system of each device or stick, perhaps, even triggered by the School > Server.
Excuse my ignorance, but if the size of the image changes dramatically, are there any issues regarding how space may have been allocated? -walter > > Installation of a persistent /home/ directory is available at the present > time by means of the livecd-iso-to-disk shell script (which is available > within a booted Mirabelle image at /LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk). > > There are other features that are available > in http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone, and storage > space optimization is discussed on this > page, http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image. > > The Sugar Clone enhancements have been submitted for inclusion in the > standard livecd-iso-to-disk script, > see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01608.html. > --Fred > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
