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Booting Linux off of Google Drive (ersei.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] evidences 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Latency isn't the only issue.

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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