Booting Linux off of Google Drive

Chewy · 10M

Booting Linux off of Google Drive

Adrien Jussak · 10M

@Chewy7324 It seems be fun but the latency should be terrible 😅

ferret · 10M

Once it all gets to ram, you should be just fine

@evidences@lemmy.world · 10M

Latency isn’t the only issue.

it’s slow, symbolic and hard linking don’t work correctly, and permissions and attributes aren’t recorded.

Jolteon · 10M

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.

qaz · edit-2 10M

What about using a Google Sheets spreadsheet with the file content encoded in BASE64?

Sparky · 10M

You maniac… What are you gonna do next? Run a cpu in a spreadsheet? Oh wait…