Interesting endeavor...any practical benefits? I would think that even a slow USB 2.0 drive would provide better performance than a cloud-based file system.
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I would think that even a slow USB 2.0 drive would provide better performance than a cloud-based file system.
That’s not the point of such experiments.
Haha, oh I know and I'm all for trying things for the fun of it! Just wondered if there was a practical benefit of such a setup.
The practical benefit would be the ability to run in an environment that can’t have any storage, but can have an internet connection. I don’t know what environment that is, but I’m sure someone will have it.
And full disk sync, I suppose
You could pxe boot off a local network server and mount your cloud drive to a fileserver that offers it as nfs to the local network...
But.. why?
I asked the same question about the Google Drive boot, and the answer really boils down to "because I can."
Be carefull that they dont install that crowdstrike software automatically onto your installation