Competitiveness is a vice of mine. When I heard that a friend got Linux to boot off of NFS, I had to one-up her. I had to prove that I could create...
  • @sugartits
    166•3 months ago

    If you use a swapfile on that setup…

    Does that mean you’ve literally DOWNLOADED RAM???

  • Bloody Harry
    106•3 months ago

    Ladies, gentlemen, none of the above. We have come full circle. The mainframe + Terminal combination is back

  • RimuEnglish
    44•3 months ago

    That’s some God tier linux wizardry

  • Bali
    9•3 months ago

    The first paragraph is savage LOL

  • @mal3oon
    6•3 months ago

    If he only went with void instead of arch, it’s just cheating using a systemd distri

    • @evidences
      12•3 months ago

      Latency isn’t the only issue.

      it’s slow, symbolic and hard linking don’t work correctly, and permissions and attributes aren’t recorded.

      • Jolteon
        7•3 months ago

        You could have a secondary layer that tarred every file on write, since tar maintains permission flags. It could also fix symbolic linking, but not hard linking. As an added benefit, it would drastically reduce the usefulness of the system.

    • ferretEnglish
      5•3 months ago

      Once it all gets to ram, you should be just fine

  • @mvirts
    5•3 months ago

    Now this is why foss software is important 😁

    • @[email protected]
      3•3 months ago

      You can make it work mostly that way. Create a UKI (unified kernel image including EFI stub loader, kernel, initial filesystem and kernel parameters), then tell uefi to directly boot it. The four steps still run, but using only a single file.

      • @[email protected]
        1•3 months ago

        Arch and Gentoo wiki only mention systemd-stub, are unified kernel images not possible with other init systems? With efistub seems possible but i couldn’t get that to work on my MB.

        Edit: i found something to Alpine Linux.