/etc/network/interfaces and snapshot persistence

[Axel <axel.ml@laposte.net>]

Hello

I m playing with snapshot persistence with live 2.0.15-1 on Squeeze. I 
didn't manage to build squeeze images with live 3.x (on wheezy or 
squeeze)  because of a syslinux bug if I remember correctly, so I stick 
to live 2.0.15-1.

I noticed that when persitence is enabled and no dedicated partition is 
found, the /live/image is mounted in read-write mode. This allowed me to 
create snapshots on the live media partition. In my previous thread on 
this mailing list, I concluded that it was mandatory to use another 
partition to store snapshots, so is there someting wrong with storing 
snapshots on the same partition that the live system ?

I noticed that the file /etc/network/interfaces wasnt restored from the 
snapshot. It seems that the file scripts/live-bottom/23networking from 
the initrd overwrite the /etc/network/interfaces (not really sure). Is 
this a bug or a limit of the snapshot-based persistence ?

I think I ll write a hook to force another snapshot restoration to get 
the real /etc/network/interfaces file. Is there a better solution ?

Thanks
Axel