On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > More than that, the live images are built on squashfs as a compressed > filesystem (would direct Fernando to > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS), which is where the > requirement to use an overlay to allow persistent storage on root > comes from. There is the option (as I mentioned, removed from the > quote of course) to use a persistent storage image on a normal > filesystem alongside it for home (and whether this is ext4 or f2fs has > nothing to do with the price of fish), but that cannot be done for the > squashfs. So far as I know, you would need to rebuild the image when > creating the live device to allow changing the root filesystem. > > If you want a live image with certain packages installed it's not too > hard to roll your own, just create a kickstart file that includes > whatever base kickstart you want and add packages. I don't follow why not just install to a 2nd USB stick normally, and use that stick to boot from on various computers. The live is for rather short duration usage, like evaluation, installation, and troubleshooting. It's not exactly well suited for being fully updated, e.g. you can't update the kernel or the initramfs. So the ability to keep the system really up to date is inherently limited with the overlay, and it's slower using squashfs+overlay than any of the other available options. Happy solstice. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
