Public bug reported: Is this really necessary? I see many downsides, but fail to see any upside.
- It adds 700 MB to the amount of memory required, and it's just some packages, most of which that can be downloaded. If some of them can not be downloaded (such as wireless firmware blobs), they can be installed before taking the drive out. If the user wants to install packages from an installation media, then it's OK to ask them to put the media in. - This makes multi-boot USB flash drives more of a pain. With Debian, instead of putting the whole ISO there, we can keep only filesystem.squashfs (and the kernel and initrd). And then we can easily edit that filesystem.squashfs if necessary. But in the same scenario, Ubuntu tries to load the whole flashdrive into RAM (and that's usually 32G or 64G...), so we have to use iso-scan instead. Then if we want to edit filesystem.squashfs, then we have to repack it into an ISO for the sole reason of limiting what gets copied into RAM. I've seen this question asked a few times: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1148912/toram-loads-entire-pendrive-to-ram https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=317064 ** Affects: casper (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1915515 Title: "toram" loads the entire media, not just filesystem.squashfs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/1915515/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
