Fwd: Re: [voyage-linux] "voyageifying" Ubuntu 9.10

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

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Subject: 	Re: [voyage-linux] "voyageifying" Ubuntu 9.10
Date: 	Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:21:32 +0800
From: 	Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com>
To: 	gravyface <gravyface at gmail.com>



Hi,

These days I discovered flashybrid package that does very similar to
what voyage 0.6 does for rw/ro.  Except that it only uses tmpfs.

In Voyage>=0.6.2, you can always use tmpfs instead of aufs for ext3/4.

Regards,
Punky

On 4/14/2010 5:41 AM, gravyface wrote:
>  Hello all,
>
>  I've been happily using voyage linux on a few ALIX boards for the last
>  year; works a treat.
>
>  Latest project involves creating a thin client based off of Ubuntu
>  9.10 using aufs and the voyage-linux' rootaufs script to hopefully
>  bring some glorious read-only remountrw/remountro features for my thin
>  client.
>
>  Following these[1] instructions, I'm at a point where when I
>  remountrw, I can modify a file in the /ro mount of the root partition,
>  remountro, reboot, and it's there.  However, I'm missing the "magic"
>  that happens in voyage-linux whereas the aufs writes get committed to
>  the real root, so that running various scripts, etc. are also permanent.
>
>  I'm obviously missing something (and have not dipped into the deep end
>  of the pool before either, so all this is new to me).
>
>  1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/aufsRootFileSystemOnUsbFlash
>
>  /dev/sda1 (my CompactFlash card) was installed with Ubuntu 9.10
>  (kernel 2.6.31-20) using Ext4.  I've read that Ext4 and Aufs don't get
>  along unless you set rootflags=barrier=0 on the kernel line in GRUB.
>  That hasn't made a difference in this behavior.
>
>  I can provide more information if required.
>
>
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Regards,
Punky

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