Re: On persistency in newer live-boot

2012-04-10 Thread Marco Amadori
On Tuesday 10 April 2012 10:10:15 Daniel Baumann wrote: > if we'd do that, we could, fs label wise, get away with 'overlay' and > 'snapshot', both being below 11 characters, so no fallbacks for legacy > fs'es/os'es would be needed. Nice Spring Cleanings! +1 -- ESC:wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Bug#668100: fromiso rewriting based on findiso structure

2012-04-10 Thread intrigeri
Hi, adrian15 wrote (09 Apr 2012 18:43:54 GMT) : > I attach the splitted patches. Thanks! I've merged: * fromiso_001_renaming.patch * fromiso_002_use_live_fromiso.patch * fromiso_004_fromiso_uses_is_mountpoint_function.patch *but* I amended it to s,/root/live/fromiso,/live/fromiso, giv

Re: On persistency in newer live-boot

2012-04-10 Thread anonym
04/09/2012 06:39 PM, anonym: > 04/09/2012 05:11 PM, Daniel Baumann: >> if we, as you impled, can unify the code so that snapshot and overlay >> is being deduced by live-boot from looking at the config file, then, >> we could use one label only. > > It ought to be pretty simple since the home-sn co

Re: On persistency in newer live-boot

2012-04-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 04/10/2012 03:26 PM, anonym wrote: > Snapshots can no longer be partitions; only snapshot files are > supported. absolutely. > If this is acceptable I propose that snapshots are activated by a > live-persistence.conf option called > "snapshot=PATH_TO_SNAPSHOT_FILE" (extension is optional). A

Re: On persistency in newer live-boot

2012-04-10 Thread Marco Amadori
On Tuesday 10 April 2012 20:05:53 Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 04/10/2012 03:26 PM, anonym wrote: > > Snapshots can no longer be partitions; only snapshot files are > > supported. > > absolutely. I agree too. The only drawback of this is to cancel the original use case that had me develop snapsho

Re: On persistency in newer live-boot

2012-04-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 04/10/2012 08:15 PM, Marco Amadori wrote: >>> We could probably drop support for /etc/live-persistence.binds > > What replaces that thing nowadays? It was handy to save some unwanted data to > be saved/restored. anonym explained it, didn't you read till the end? :) -- Address:Daniel

local hwclock in debian-live

2012-04-10 Thread Eugene V Budnikov
Hi, I need to run debian-live on systems with hardware clock in localtime. But anyway I got the wrong time - with twice GMT offset. I've found that rc.d hwclock symlinks are deleted in /lib/live/config/114-util-linux - why? And how to setup debian-live to use localtime in rtc? Well, I have utc=no

Re: local hwclock in debian-live

2012-04-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 04/10/2012 09:47 PM, Eugene V Budnikov wrote: > I've found that rc.d hwclock symlinks are deleted in > /lib/live/config/114-util-linux - why? hwclock would change the hardware clock, a permanent change, which is not acceptable for a live system to do. > And how to setup debian-live to use loca

Re: Re: local hwclock in debian-live

2012-04-10 Thread Eugene V Budnikov
> > I've found that rc.d hwclock symlinks are deleted in > > /lib/live/config/114-util-linux - why? > hwclock would change the hardware clock, a permanent change, which is not > acceptable for a live system to do.  Well, it changes hardware clock on stop. But on start it sets up the system time

Re: On persistency in newer live-boot

2012-04-10 Thread Marco Amadori
On Wednesday 11 April 2012 02:05:16 Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 04/10/2012 08:15 PM, Marco Amadori wrote: > >>> We could probably drop support for /etc/live-persistence.binds > > > > What replaces that thing nowadays? It was handy to save some unwanted > > data to be saved/restored. > > anonym exp

Re: local hwclock in debian-live

2012-04-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 04/10/2012 11:10 PM, Eugene V Budnikov wrote: > But on start it sets up the system time correctly using timezone and utc flags so does live-config, so? > At fact now it ignores utc=no flag and sets the system clock from > hardware as UTC. it does not, tested on squeeze. are you using a wheezy

Re: Re: local hwclock in debian-live

2012-04-10 Thread Eugene V Budnikov
> > But on start it sets up the system time correctly using timezone and utc > > flags > so does live-config, so? I don't found any hwclock --hctosys calls in /lib/live/config. $ grep -ir hwclock . ./config/114-util-linux:rm -f /etc/rc?.d/*hwclock* That's all. > > At fact now it ignores