persistent root? 

Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user
Date:        Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:18:30 +0200
> > ... Adjust your live-cd system with the configuration framework:
> > http://grml.org/config/[]
> If one can afford the persistenthome, ie, have a local partition to use,
> would it be a great idea to offer a total persistent grml system on local
> partition?
> I mean, since we can use the unionfs to allows user to install packages,
> tweak configs, why don't we save the changes on disk, instead of in ram.
> So with persistentroot, no need to save-config/restore-config every
> time...

Someone has to implement it. :) I have some more important stuff on my todo list and would like to see unionfs in a more stable state before doing such a major modification with unionctl (inclusion in mainline kernel once would be great).

Michael Prokop