Re: Decision 2 - Name and number of /live/filesystem.* on live media

[Mark Schneider <ms@it-infrastrukturen.org>]

Am 03.10.2012 13:44, schrieb Daniel Baumann:
> On 10/03/2012 12:47 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > How many layers would a live system with multitude of
> > squashfs images and multitude of persistence layers have?
> in the gnome-desktop case, that would be 3
> (base+standard+gnome-desktop), plus one for persistence (when using full
> or only one-directory (home) persistence).
>
> so.. in the default (=official images) cases, below 5. that should work,
> right?
From my point of view it is a *good* idea to support multiply squashfs 
images.
Are there any disadvantages like higher RAM usage in the live system?

> > 2) composing multiple squashfs images is not always practical.
> we're not talking about 'allways', we're talking about 'defaults'.
>
> talking about 'default' means, that you'll allways be able to change to
> one squashfs image if that's suitable for your use case.
It is OK with the possibility to change to one squashfs image when required.

regards, Mark

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