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		ad404b8a372f2b9 on Dec 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VanillaOS: Immutable Ubuntu-Based Linux Hmmmm how would the sync work with overlayfs? It sounds cool but I have a hard time picturing it. Do you mean you'd have a read-only base system, and a remote layer on top so the application data is only persisted remotely?

agumonkey on Dec 31, 2022 [–]

Simply meant syncing the new data to a remote backup, so whatever happens on your immutable session doesn't impact your files.

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