Getting rid of persistence? It's one of the things that make LiveUSBs of Linux awesome. It would be a step in the backward direction. On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 at 4:59 PM, Marc Deslauriers < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 2015-09-19 07:04 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: > > Hi Marc, > > > > My standard ISP's mail server is down. So I tried to send this mail via > Google's > > web mail interface. In my saved version of the mail, there is an > attachment > > "SCC-test.ods", size 17692 bytes. I'll try again ... > > > > Best regards > > Nio > > > > That's a very interesting spreadsheet, thanks for doing that. It seems most > issues are: > > - A known bug in udisks that prevents the erase function from working > reliably > (LP: #1460602) > > - A mismatch between syslinux versions between the host system creating > the usb > key and the version being installed (LP: #1325801) > > - A limitation of the fix for the syslinux issue that prevents amd64 > images from > being created on i386 systems (LP: #1446646) > > > I believe a simple way to eliminate every one of these issues at once in > UDC > would be to get rid of the persistence functionality. All of the currently > supported images can now be written directly to a usb device as-is. > > The syslinux and boot loader mangling that is currently required for > persistence > and used to be required for older end of life releases is a constant > source of > problems each time a new release come out and is difficult to get working > properly on mismatched architectures. > > Removing persistence would also simplify the user interface and would > remove the > need of having the "Erase Disk" button, therefore eliminating the known > udisks > issue as a side effect. > > Advanced users who require generating a usb key with persistence can > simply use > one of the other tools that are available. Perhaps in the future > persistence > could be added back by creating a partition in the free space left over > after > copying over the image. > > Changing UDC to remove persistence and to copy images as-is is a trivial > change, > and I am willing to volunteer to do it. > > Marc. > > > -- > Ubuntu-quality mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality > -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality
