Knoppix et al usually use a read-only compressed filesystem like
squashfs, with a ramdisk overlayed on top to support write. I'm not
familiar with the way BSD liveCDs work, so I can't really say this would
make the difference.
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 17:36 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:38:44PM -0700, David T. Harris wrote:
> >
> > Maybe it has something to do with the filesystem used on Knoppix and similar livecd's v.s. the one(s) used on the *BSD livecd's. I'd be interested in learning this myself, and would delve into it more if I wasn't so busy with school & work currently.
> >
>
> Maybe . . . but that seems odd. I know that the filesystem used by
> default in BSD Unix installs on the hard drive performs pretty well, so
> unless there's some kind of "it's not designed for this" problem with
> running from a LiveCD or a different filesystem is used on the LiveCD
> than on the hard drive install, I don't know how the filesystem would be
> to blame.
>
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