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Possibility to run on USB stick #21

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Ygarr opened this issue Jan 22, 2019 · 1 comment
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Possibility to run on USB stick #21

Ygarr opened this issue Jan 22, 2019 · 1 comment

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@Ygarr Ygarr commented Jan 22, 2019

Please add possibility to use TridentOS on USB stick and save/write changes to it aka persistence. Like NomadBSD but with "toram" function

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@q5sys q5sys commented Jan 22, 2019

You can already install Trident to a USB stick and save changes to disk. The USB stick will be seen just like any other usb disk.
However, it will not operate as a live image in RAM. There are severe limitations with unionfs on FreeBSD. Until features are added, or a new layered file system like AUFS from linux is written for FreeBSD, running from RAM and saving changes to disk will not be possible for the foreseeable future.

I looked into this when I came over to do development for TrueOS from Linux. As I used AUFS, I was highly interested in being able to do this on FreeBSD, alas... the kernel doesn't have the features its needs to make this a reality.

You can have a persistent USB install that allows changes. Or you can have a live stateless image that can be loaded into and run from RAM. You cannot have both.

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