Re: Integrate Knoppix in Debian (was: Re: Debian Enterprise?)
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:46:28AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Debix (through the device mapper) completly removes the live CD aspect of
> the installation. The CD part becomes completly transparent. The Knoppix
> developers are quite intrested in this since all the other methods
> (onionfs, lucientfs, symlink farm) all, well, suck. When 2.6 is released
> and becomes stable device mapper support is in the standard kernel so no
> extra patches will be neccessary, which is another argument for it.
So am I to understand that you plan to use device-mapper snapshots in order
to provide copy-on-write at the block device level in order to implement
this? If so, this is interesting. I assume you will use a RAM disk for
writable storage? What filesystem will you use?
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- mdz
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