[Sugar-devel] Documenting the SoaS file system

[Caroline Meeks]

http://screencast.com/t/ryu2XXYw

This is what I see when I browse the stick.

The largest file is: Overlay-FEDORA so I assume that is where the user files
are.  What is the format of this file?

What is really odd is, this stick has a kids name on it, so I know its been
used in July.  Infact we didn't buy this brand of stick till July 5th.  Why
is the latest date on the files July 1?

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Luke Faraone <luke at faraone.cc> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 08:32, Caroline Meeks <caroline at solutiongrove.com>wrote:
>
>> When I read about squashfs in wikipedia or chat with friends about it, its
>> decribed as read-only and optimized for space.  If we are rewritting our
>> squashfs everytime the user saves data, that could be the source of a lot of
>> our failures.  If we never rewrite it, then probably its a red harring and
>> we need to look elsewhere.
>>
>
> From what I understand, the squashfs is *never* rewritten once created. All
> changes are stored in a "LVM Snapshot", which is just another file on the
> underlying FAT filesystem.
> --
> Luke Faraone
> http://luke.faraone.cc
>



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