[Sugar-devel] Sugar on a Stick File Structure - Summary of problems and potential solutions

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Caroline
Meeks<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> Here is a summary of how I see the problems and the solutions we are
> evaluating. Let me know if this is correct.
> Problems we'd like solve:
> To be acceptable a solution should solve all of these problems.
>
> Reduce the frequency of sticks not being bootable after usage
> Allow a VM system to read user files and thus allow us to create a VM that
> can switch users
> Allow a user to put the stick into a windows/mac/linux machine and find
> their files
> Ready for Sept deployment at GPA
>
> Things we wish to optimized
>
> Ability to work with poor quality sticks
> Size of stick needed
> Amount of abuse the stick can take and still work
> Size of download to create the stick
> Time it takes to create the stick
> Easy user experience creating the stick
> Speed of the stick in use
> Minimize development time invested in the immediate future
> Familiar and easy to understand
>
> We expect different solutions to be different in terms of how they do on
> these criteria
>
> Solutions currently being considered:

Not clear that any of these are solutions. We need to understand the
root causes of failures and then propose solutions. For example, my
mentioning openSUSE to you at the GPA the other day was not to propose
it as a solution, but rather, as another control in our testing
regime.

> Fixing the current system in some way? (Do we have a plan that uses the
> current file structure and solves all of the problems?)
> Full install of Fedora
> Switch to OpenSuse
> Create a stick using Fedora code in the same way that OpenSuse creates their
> stick? (Is this a possibility?)
> Trying to find a file system expert to deploy some sort of journaling file
> structure that is designed for robustness.
>
> --
> Caroline Meeks
> Solution Grove
> Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
>
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-walter

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