On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 13:32 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > > At the risk of muddying the waters a bit: now that OverlayFS is here, I > think that even a dd-copied image should be able to support persistence. > The image could notice that it's dd-copied (by checking GPT GUIDs or layout > or whatever), see that there's extra space at the end, and allocate it. In fact, our cloud images do something rather like this so that when you write them to a hard disk, they expand the root partition to fill the available space on the disk on the initial boot. So yeah, it seems entirely plausible that we could design a persistence mechanism that worked that way. But the current one doesn't :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
