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...

If you use a swapfile on that setup...
Does that mean you've literally DOWNLOADED RAM???
168 0 Reply21 0 ReplyFelony!!!
14 0 ReplyLol this is exactly where my mind went
4 0 ReplyYOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A RAM
3 0 ReplyI remember LinusTechTips doing this with that title. But atleadt that was swap only on gdrive now this is full os in gdrive
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Respect, but...
109 2 ReplyLinux uh... Finds a way.
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Ladies, gentlemen, none of the above. We have come full circle. The mainframe + Terminal combination is back
106 1 ReplyMainframes are just other people's computers
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That's some God tier linux wizardry
48 0 ReplyNot Stallman approved
39 0 ReplyHow is that latency haha
37 0 ReplyCompetitive with 1970s?
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Systemd FTW
13 2 ReplyThe first paragraph is savage LOL
9 0 Reply@Chewy7324 It seems be fun but the latency should be terrible 😅
7 1 ReplyLatency 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 ReplyYou 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.
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Once it all gets to ram, you should be just fine
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If he only went with void instead of arch, it's just cheating using a systemd distri
8 2 ReplyNow this is why foss software is important 😁
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