Hello there,
In curious to gather more information on how Clear Linux differentiates its filesystem layout from other distributions.
Ive seen brief mentions on blog post like here:
Are you guys taking an ostree (fedora silverblue) approch where specific parts of the filesystem are immutable? Is there more documentation about there somewhere?
This documentation explains the design: https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/guides/clear/stateless.html
The filesystem areas with OS content are still mutable but the software updater assumes ownership. swupd will overwrite files in updates can check/repair against a manifest of known files.
Thanks, I’ll check out the docs.
Seems like this may strike a nice balance between the safety of immutability but the usefulness of still being able to edit the filesystem if need be.