Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
Hi Stephen, thanks for answering.I'm trying to see if I can get a router using an embeded platform, alix in this case. Since the Alix platform is getting more powerfull and the 1GB compatch flash is also getting cheaper, I was think in createing a full Centos distro booting in that platform.Will read more about the overlay feature and see if it will do the job for me.But maybe I will go back to have an ext2 partition and don't write to it. I likethe LiveCD option because of the fast (no fsck) boot feature Regards, Oliver Stephen John Smoogen wrote:On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Oliver Schulze L. <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi Stephen,I read about the overlay feature in Fedora9, but I don't know if when thechangesto the FS are so big (like going from 5.1 to 5.2) the overlay will grow andgrow over time. And the overlay solution will require too much space.For the live Cd that is about your only choise. The overlay will not grow.. it will eventually fill up, but if you are making that many changes in an embedded environment you really need to think about why you aren't doing a complete reflush of the SSD
OK ... what would be the benefit of booting and updating the livecd as compared to just installing and updating CentOS on the flash.
There is nothing special about the RPMS on the LiveCD as compared to regular CentOS.
The only possible thing I see as an advantage would be the fact that the OS was NOT WRITABLE .. however, by rolling in the overlay feature, you would be over riding that.
Am I missing something here?
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