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Re:VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux by agumonkey on Saturday December 31, 2022 @11:07AM (#34197665)
An encrypted overlayfs with fine grained remote sync would be quite neat.
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Re:VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux by ad404b8a372f2b9 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @12:31PM (#34198577)
Hmmmm how would the sync work with overlayfs? It sounds cool but I have a hard time picturing it.

Do you mean you'd have a read-only base system, and a remote layer on top so the application data is only persisted remotely?

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Re:VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux by agumonkey on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:39PM (#34199914)
Simply meant syncing the new data to a remote backup, so whatever happens on your immutable session doesn't impact your files.
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