readahead - from a tar file
Scott James Remnant
scott at netsplit.com
Tue Oct 23 19:16:24 BST 2007
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 19:01 +0200, Mildred wrote:
> Le Mon 22/10/2007 à 14:20 Shawn Rutledge à écrit:
> > It would probably be enough to have a different selection in the boot
> > loader, like the one for "profile", which does not use the tarball at
> > all (and regenerates the tarball later).
>
> Or it could be enough to tell all those who want to change the
> configuration while the system is down, to write directly in the tar
> file.
>
How do you write to the tar file when you're not booted?
Having the system run effectively random code on boot after mounting the
disk from another installation (or worse, a Rescue Live CD!) would be
disastrous.
Scott
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