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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:42:36 +0200
Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Friday 13 September 2013 17:33:47 Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > it is currently not possible to switch on ssh in a persistent way, but with
> > the next image in the daily-proposed channel (build number >46) this should
> > be fixed. due to the nature of the readonly image you can not just remove
> > the .override file but instead will have to empty it to make it not take
> > effect:
> > 
> > echo | sudo tee /etc/init/ssh.override
> 
> At the risk of blaming myself... How come I cannot delete, but still modify a 
> file on a read only file system? I mean... modifying a file is still write 
> operation, no?

writability of files on the ro image is achieved by bind mounting the files from the ro side to a writable area of the filesystem ... if you delete it, it will just come back on next boot since the bind mount is newly created ... 

which is kind of defeating the purpose :)

ciao
	oli

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