ChimeraOS / chimeraos

A Steam Big Picture based couch gaming OS
MIT License
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Disable copy-on-write for /home #925

Open NeroReflex opened 7 months ago

NeroReflex commented 7 months ago

The rest of the system benefits from copy-on-write: snapshot that are restored (and can be checked) by frzr, compression that got enabled at creation-time, file checksums to ensure integrity.

/home and /var do not benefit from CoW however, they might host frequently-written files, potentially even a VM disk: disable CoW for /home so that it can be mounted without nodatacow.