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by amluto 2881 days ago
> so there's no longer any point in having a distinction between "install" and "run/boot".

When Linux boots, the in memory state changes quite a bit. Even the actual code gets modified during boot. The whole process takes well under a second. Linux does support an “execute in place”, but it’s barely a win, and I don’t think it works on x86.

A more interesting idea is to put your OS installation on a DAX (direct access) filesystem.