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[Israel <israeldahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/08/2014 02:42 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Hi toriosadores,
>
> Debian and Ubuntu based ISO files contain read only ISO 9660 file
> systems and make read-only systems in USB drives (as well as in CD/DVD
> disks), when copied/flashed/cloned with mkusb. They need a tool, that
> recognizes and picks the pieces and install them into another file
> system (usually FAT32), and after that a casper-rw file or partition can
> be created for persistence.
>
> openSUSE comes with different ISO files for live systems. I have checked
> and both of
>
> openSUSE-13.1-GNOME-Live-i686.iso
> openSUSE-13.2-KDE-Live-x86_64.iso
>
> contain UDF file systems and create an ext3 'hybrid' read-write
> partition for persistence automatically, when installed by mkusb into
> USB drives. I guess it works also with read-write CD/DVD disks but I
> have not tried that (I have never used such a disk).
>
> So the openSUSE kind of live system will get persistence, when installed
> with mkusb. This UDF system can be both an advantage and disadvantage.
>
> + It is very convenient to get persistence this way, and the success
> rate making USB boot drives is higher than with other methods.
>
> - You may not want persistence
>
> . because it make the live session slower
> . because you want to avoid the risk of virus or other malware
>
> - There may be booting problems in very old computers, that might not
> work with the UDF file system.
>
> See the attached file, cut from the output of
>
> sudo lsblk -fm
>
> I think it can be worthwhile considering, not now, the 12.04 ISO file
> should keep the ISO 9660 file system, but for a future release of
> ToriOS, maybe '14.04'. Maybe it is fairly easy to borrow the technology
> and replace the ISO file system with UDF and let the installer create a
> partition for persistence, when the target drive can be written to.
>
> Best regards
> Nio
That sounds amazing!!

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