Douglas McClendon wrote: > Patrice Guay wrote: > > Douglas McClendon wrote: > >>>>> Patrice Guay wrote: > >>>>>> For the persistence feature, I am looking for a set of > >>>>>> patches that apply for the current livecd-tools package. > >>>>>> Any help on this front would be appreciated. > >> > >> The bleeding edge first pass bits are here- > >> > >> http://filteredperception.org/downloads/overlay/20091027/livecd-tools-014-6dmc.src.rpm > >> > >> I've successfully tested something that either is equivalent to > >> that build, or very very close. But I'll put out a really tested > >> srpm in a couple more days, which hopefully will also have the > >> useful separate-filesystem persistenthome feature, as well as the > >> global persistence incorporated here. > >> > > I will take a look at this updated version of livecd-tools. To > > incorporate this version into the current livecd-tools project, I > > will explode your source RPM, examine and pick the relevant > > patches. > > The patches themselves were all just vanilla downloads from > the gitweb 'raw' links. I believe I only put relevant patches in. > Or rather, I think I took all the patches up to the mayflower split > because I knew they would apply, then after that only took relevant, > or what seemed like really useful patches. > > [...] LiveUSB persistence [could] be much more usable. I.e. > currently your overlay file resources can and do get drained by > created and deleted files that the block layer at the moment doesn't > handle as efficiently as possible. This is also the reason why you > might want /home on a seperately mounted, not-dm-shapshotted loopback > file ala the persistenthome feature. I updated the livecd-tools package from version 014-5 to 014-7. This update introduces new interesting features: - adding the persistence feature (persistent overlay) - thanks to Douglas McClendon - fixing /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot script: was broken in the previous versions of livecd-tools 014 - creating a minimal /dev instead of bind mounting the host's /dev You will need to recreate a LiveCD ISO image with livecd-tools 014-7 in order to use the new '--overlay-size-mb' switch of the livecd-iso-to-disk utility. If you use an older LiveCD ISO image, the overlay will be ignored. See https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/ImageFlash for instructions about creating a LiveUSB media with a persistent overlay. -- Patrice __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4553 (20091028) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com