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Re:Talos Linux by AtlasBarfed on Sunday June 19, 2022 @12:15PM (#31800679)
... so it wastes memory instead of disk?

Unless we are talking about, like, a 100MB ramdisk, why is that a good thing?

And really, I'd prefer a 10MB ramdisk.

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Re:Talos Linux by andrewrynhard on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:15PM (#31801837)
It is a 50MB squashfs.
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Re:Talos Linux by giancarlostoro on Sunday June 19, 2022 @03:21PM (#31802495)
Thats impressive honestly.
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Re:Talos Linux by ReptileMan on Sunday June 19, 2022 @03:35PM (#31802597)
Probably makes full disk encryption easier. Also compared to how much memory you can have on a modern server - it's trivial amount
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Re:Talos Linux by cbarrick on Sunday June 19, 2022 @01:23PM (#31801352)
Diskless servers are not uncommon
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Re:Talos Linux by latchkey on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @02:06AM (#31820467)
I've got over 10k of them. ;-)
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