Re: things i do not understand

[Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>]

Jean Spirat wrote:
> Hello there,

Hi,

> Then, how it handle the write to files like in the /var directory ?

during the system boot, an aufs (or unionfs) layer on top of the
read-only mounted filesystem (squashfs) is established. any write you do
will result in a transparent ramdisk overlay.

> I tried to make one live system to work with FAI but it complain that
> /var is read only so i am a little lost to debug this.

i've no clue about fai. what did you exactely do? are you using live-helper?

Regards,
Daniel

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