On Fri, 2016-10-07 at 13:32 -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> At the risk of muddying the waters a bit: now that OverlayFS is here, I
> think that even a dd-copied image should be able to support persistence.
> The image could notice that it's dd-copied (by checking GPT GUIDs or layout
> or whatever), see that there's extra space at the end, and allocate it.

In fact, our cloud images do something rather like this so that when
you write them to a hard disk, they expand the root partition to fill
the available space on the disk on the initial boot.

So yeah, it seems entirely plausible that we could design a persistence
mechanism that worked that way. But the current one doesn't :)
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