Booting Linux off of Google Drive
Booting Linux off of Google Drive
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...

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Adrien Jussak @piaille.fr
@Chewy7324 It seems be fun but the latency should be terrible đ
7 1 Replyevidences @lemmy.world Latency isn't the only issue.
it's slow, symbolic and hard linking don't work correctly, and permissions and attributes aren't recorded.
12 0 ReplyJolteon @lemmy.zip 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.
8 0 Replyqaz @lemmy.world What about using a Google Sheets spreadsheet with the file content encoded in BASE64?
4 0 Reply[object Object] @lemmy.blahaj.zone
You maniac... What are you gonna do next? Run a cpu in a spreadsheet? Oh wait...
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ferret @sh.itjust.works Once it all gets to ram, you should be just fine
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