Author: anonym Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Tails persistence use case
11/14/2011 10:17 AM, intrigeri: >
>> Proposed solution: locally specified inclusions
>> ===============================================
>
>> We make home-{rw,sn} obsolete, only live-{rw,sn} are considered by
>> live-boot (or more correctly, the scripts it adds to the initramfs).
>> When a persistent media (with label/filename "live-rw") is found by
>> live-boot, it looks for a file called .live-persistence.includes (but
>> I'll continue calling it just ".includes") in its root. If it's not
>> there, then it mounts the media (using aufs) on / just like it does for
>> live-rw currently. But if .includes is present, then it doesn't mount
>> anything on /, it instead bind-mounts the directories listed in
>> .includes to their specified destinations.
>
> Looks like it would perfectly suit our needs.
I've updated the RFC and also notified the Debian Live mailing list. I'm
just waiting for an OK before starting to implement this.
