[Fedora-livecd-list] config/livecd-fedora-base-desktop.ks

[Jeremy Katz]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said: 
>>>>     /var/cache which are expected to have high turn-over.  Let's make them
>>>>     tmpfs instead
>>> How does that work with yum upgrade on persistent images? 
>> It was actually to help that case (turnover with packages in /var/cache/yum 
>> eats up blocks fast).  But yeah, other bits of /var/cache could matter and 
>> come from a package I guess.  Will switch it to just overmount 
>> /var/cache/yum
> 
> Right, but if that's a new openoffice package.... you may run tight on RAM
> pretty quickly.

And if you instead are using an overlay that's one gig, that openoffice 
update has made the overlay half full.  With no chance of reclaiming the 
space that was just for the downloaded bits from the rpm.

Yeah, all answers kind of suck.  Maybe unionfs will save us eventually.

Jeremy