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From: | Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: | bug#44353: [PATCH version-1.2.0 v2] guix: system: Add a new '--non-volatile' option for disk-image. |
Date: | Tue, 17 Nov 2020 09:44:49 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello Mathieu, Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> writes: [...] > When developing the image API, I hesitated keeping the default of using > volatile root file systems by default. > > In most cases, I think that the user may prefer to have non volatile > images. They already have to copy the image from the store and make it > writable so that QEMU can use it with "-hda" argument. > > Switching the default to non volatile could be an option I think. Doing > what you are proposing: setting volatile to false when image-size is > passed could also be a first step. Hi Mathieu! As I mentioned in a reply to Ludovic and based from your feedback I'll make the disk-image produced to be non-volatile by default, with the switch to make them volatile becoming "--volatile". Thanks! Maxim
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