Re: [Tails-dev] Experimenting with Tails, preferred workflow…

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Author: Arnaud
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To: The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Experimenting with Tails, preferred workflow ?
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> Let me add one, which is a special case of intrigeri's last point:
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> * start Tails and "symlink" the relevant/changed files from your Tails source tree into the correct places in the filesystem of a running Tails session. So first you use sshfs or libvirt filesystem shares to make your Tails sources available inside the Tails guest, then you just symlink the source files to the correct places. This allows for rapidly testing your changes, but won't in all situations (e.g. stuff happening during early boot). YMMV.


Nice, thanks for sharing tips :)

>> Now I just read a bit about aufs and I understand better how it works
> It's a cool technology, but I don't think it's really needed. :)


Not sure to follow you. It IS actually used, that's what `mount` and
`/etc/fstab` show me. If I understand properly, it's thanks to aufs that
the rootfs is writable (in RAM).

BTW I stumbled on quite a nice article about the different filesystem
strategies used in different LiveCDs (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora), here the
link in case you're interested:

https://major.io/2014/07/29/adventures-in-live-booting-linux-distributions/

Cheers.