On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 06:16:57 PM Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:

On 2015-03-24 13:55, Mark Lee wrote:

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To all,

I'd like to introduce an initcpio hooks I created called liveroot. It basically allows one to run Arch root on a ram block device. It has three modes: oroot=compressed (compressed block device), oroot=raw (tmpfs), oroot=live (run entirely on ram). In addition, it has a function called overlay_flush which lets one flush the ram block device to disk.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/liveroot/

Regards, Mark

The forums are probably the best place for these sort of announcements, both for on-topicness and for greater reach.

To Hugo, Oh yeah, it was posted there. Nobody seemed to care. I think liveroot is actually quite powerful in what it does but I didn't really get any comments so I posted on the AUR general mailing list as well. Regards, Mark

On Wednesday, April 01, 2015 10:00:25 AM gt wrote:

On 1 April 2015 03:25:51 GMT+05:30, Mark Lee wrote:

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Oh yeah, it was posted there. Nobody seemed to care. I think liveroot is actually quite powerful in what it does but I didn't really get any comments so I posted on the AUR general mailing list as well.

Can it be used to run live Arch too? In that case it would be great for a custom Arch live media, something similar to Puppy Linux.

Oh yeah, I stated that in the forum post. It can convert any standard Arch Linux installation into a "live" version. As stated on the forums, if the Arch Install ISO dropped ISO support, it could be used to make an Arch installation img with an easily modified and visible root. One could make an installation media with a btrfs root and leverage the snapshotting abilities. It also supports encrypted root and has partial support for lvm partitions. Regards, Mark