Possibility to run on USB stick
Ygarr opened this issue · comments
Please add possibility to use TridentOS on USB stick and save/write changes to it aka persistence. Like NomadBSD but with "toram" function
You can already install Trident to a USB stick and save changes to disk. The USB stick will be seen just like any other usb disk.
However, it will not operate as a live image in RAM. There are severe limitations with unionfs on FreeBSD. Until features are added, or a new layered file system like AUFS from linux is written for FreeBSD, running from RAM and saving changes to disk will not be possible for the foreseeable future.
I looked into this when I came over to do development for TrueOS from Linux. As I used AUFS, I was highly interested in being able to do this on FreeBSD, alas... the kernel doesn't have the features its needs to make this a reality.
You can have a persistent USB install that allows changes. Or you can have a live stateless image that can be loaded into and run from RAM. You cannot have both.