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Re: Developing a kiosk type system - advice needed



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Mattia Dongili schrieb:
> On Tue, October 4, 2005 1:04 pm, Petter Reinholdtsen said:
> 
>>[Simon Guerrero]
>>
>>>I am developing a "kiosk" type of system, where I want to a) boot up
>>>fast
>>>and b) be able to switch off and back on and restart with a clean image.
>>
>>Part a is a bit tricky, but should be solvable.  Part b sounds like a
> 
> 
> about a) an partly b): would suspending (S4) to a swap file once and the
> always resume from that without overwriting it reach the goal?
> Note: never tried it.
> 
Hi,

this could be possible, one should however be careful about the file system,
since the suspended image might contain information about the status of the file
system that does not longer hold true (at least with suspend2). Mounting most of
the file systems ro permanently should however solve this problem.

best regards

Torsten

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