On 3/26/12, Solar Designer <solar_at_private> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 06:42:09AM +0000, Zenny wrote: >> Actually, I was expecting some script equivalent to NanoBSD (you know >> what I meant) in Owl which can produce CF images like voyage linux, >> based on debian-live, for 32- and 64-bit archs. Is there something in >> the making? > > Gremlin had patches to add a new make target that would generate flash > images instead of ISOs. I think those were primarily intended for > installing systems from, and they were for larger flash devices (1 GB > being considered the minimum anyone would likely happen to have handy > anyway). Great info. Do you mean this one: ftp://ftp.gremlin.people.openwall.com/pub/linux/Owl/INSTALL/? > Frankly, I failed to find time to review and merge those > patches - perhaps we should revisit this topic on owl-dev soon. With ZFS on Linux (ZoL) and BTRFS in the horizon, it seemed as such a script would be nice to separate OS from the data. With ro CF/USB with an encrypted data volume implemented in Owl would indeed be awesome! (See below, too) > > As to producing smaller flash images intended for actual use (rather > than installing systems from), there has been no effort to automate this > so far, as far as I'm aware. > > Thank you for indicating your interest in this. Many things are done > (or not done) in response to demand (or lack thereof), so it is > important to have feature requests like yours. Thanks that you appreciate interest in new features. Have you ever though to HAMMER filestystem from DragonflyBSD to port? I am optimistic that Owl team could port HAMMER to Owl (as you already have ported several of the BSD utilities). Though HAMMER is not as feature rich as ZFS (does not have a volume management but uses LVM), but I feel it safe to be in the BSD userland than the rogue stuffs under Oracle. On top of that HAMMER uses much less memory to do the same stuffs that ZFS can do. The only feature lacking is master-master replication whereas master-slave replication is already there. The following could be some links: §0 http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/ §1 http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/hammer.pdf §2 http://dl.wolfpond.org/Hammer-Presentation.en.pdf It seems hammer2 will have some improvements over hammer1. Matt Dillon has already released a roadmap on hammer 2 last month at http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-02/msg00020.html I would indeed love to see HAMMER happen in Owl to integrate enterprise grade security with an enterprise grade storage system to a new level! ;-) Let us make Owl-enterprise-ready! ;-) Just my two kopeks! > > Alexander >Received on Mon Mar 26 2012 - 00:39:27 PDT
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