Oooh, I never thought about this use case!.. I thought it's just for convenience: you can get an ultra-fast system instead of really slow USB, and you don't have to worry about accidentally mixing up the drives and nuking your flash.
My current use case is: make a multi-boot USB as a sysadmin tool for rescue, bug testing and distro testing. Removing the flash after boot is convenient if I work on several computers at the same time, and things being really fast helps too. Reducing the memory requirements would help, and removing the need to repack filesystem.squashfs into an ISO would help greatly. I would suggest having "toram" keep the existing functionality, but adding "toram=filesystem.squashfs" that acts the same way as in Debian (loads only the specified file). However, this would probably be a significant pain to implement, for a moderate benefit in a pretty exotic use case. Unless more people want it for whatever they are doing. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1915515 Title: "toram" loads the entire media, not just filesystem.squashfs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/1915515/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
