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Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) by Jhsto on Monday April 15, 2024 @10:25PM (#40047793)
Just the other week I used Nix on my laptop to derive PXE boot images, uploaded those to IPFS, and netbooted my server in another country over a public IPFS mirror. The initrd gets mounted as read-only overlayfs on boot. My configs are public: https://github.com/jhvst/nix-config

I plan to write documentation of the IPFS process including the PXE router config later at https://github.com/majbacka-labs/nixos.fi -- we might also run a small public build server for peoples Flake configs, who are interested in trying out this process.

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Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) by __MatrixMan__ on Monday April 15, 2024 @11:46PM (#40048161)
I laughed when I saw that your readme jumps straight into some category theory. FYI others might cry instead.

You're doing some cool things here.

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Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) by jquaint on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @02:15AM (#40048864)
This is really cool. Plan to take some inspiration from your config!
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Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) by vmfunction on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @03:32AM (#40049285)
>A prominent direction in the Linux distribution scene lately has been the concept of immutable desktop operating systems. Recent examples include Fedora Silverblue (2018) and Vanilla OS (2022). But, on my anecdotal understanding of the timelines concerning Linux distros, both are spiritual successors to CoreOS (2013).

Remember in the late 90's booting server off a CD-ROM was the thing.

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Re:BTFS (BitTorrent Filesystem) by hnarn on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @08:19AM (#40051054)
Booting off USB sticks is still done all the time and it's (almost) literally the same thing. Doing it in combination with encrypted persistence support as available in Debian for example can be really nice.
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