<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Mel Chua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mel@melchua.com">mel@melchua.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm going to have to miss today's meeting, but as an update on my task<br>
from last week: <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1798#comment:22" target="_blank">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1798#comment:22</a></blockquote><div> </div><div>See this comment added to <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1798#comment:23">http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1798#comment:23</a> :</div>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">School-based deployments may want to take advantage of the persistent /home/ directory installation instead of the persistent OS overlay. The persistent home folder is not a write-once, ever-diminishing storage space.<br>
</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">For consistency and stability reasons, the school may want to leave out the persistent OS overlay (using a temporary overlay on each boot) and just use the persistent /home/ directories to save the Learners' Journals and settings.<br>
</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">If a school-wide system change were desired, the Sticks could be upgraded with a simple exchange of the /LiveOS/squashfs.img file in the base file system of each device or stick, perhaps, even triggered by the School Server.<br>
</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Installation of a persistent /home/ directory is available at the present time by means of the livecd-iso-to-disk shell script (which is available within a booted Mirabelle image at /LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk).<br>
</p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">There are other features that are available in <a class="ext-link" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(187, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); "><span class="icon" style="background-image: url(http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/chrome/common/extlink.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-left: 12px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "> </span>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Sugar_Clone</a>, and storage space optimization is discussed on this page, <a class="ext-link" href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(187, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); "><span class="icon" style="background-image: url(http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/chrome/common/extlink.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-left: 12px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "> </span>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image</a>.<br>
</p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">The Sugar Clone enhancements have been submitted for inclusion in the standard livecd-iso-to-disk script, see<a class="ext-link" href="http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01608.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(187, 0, 0); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); "><span class="icon" style="background-image: url(http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/chrome/common/extlink.gif); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-left: 12px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; "> </span>http://www.mail-archive.com/soas@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg01608.html</a>.</span> </div>
<div><br></div><div> --Fred</div></div>