Background
PSD is designed to manage browser profile(s) in tmpfs and to periodically sync back to the physical disc, thereby reducing writes to SSDs. This is useful where there is ample spare RAM on the system.
Installing profile-sync-daemon
profile-sync-daemon was not available in Fedora repositories at the time. To build and install it
Download the source from https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon
[mochapenguin@dv6tqe psd]su -
[root@dv6tqe psd]# git clone https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon.git
[root@dv6tqe psd]# cd profile-sync-daemon/
[root@dv6tqe profile-sync-daemon]# make
Setting version
[root@dv6tqe profile-sync-daemon]# make install
Installing main script...
install -p -d "/usr/bin"
install -p -m755 common/profile-sync-daemon "/usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon"
install -p -m755 common/psd-overlay-helper "/usr/bin/psd-overlay-helper"
ln -s profile-sync-daemon "/usr/bin/psd"
install -p -d "/usr/share/zsh/site-functions"
install -p -m644 common/zsh-completion "//usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_psd"
install -p -d "/usr/share/psd/browsers"
install -p -m644 common/psd.conf "/usr/share/psd/psd.conf"
cp common/browsers/* "/usr/share/psd/browsers"
Installing manpage...
install -p -d "/usr/share/man/man1"
install -p -m644 doc/psd.1 "/usr/share/man/man1/psd.1"
install -p -m644 doc/psd-overlay-helper.1 "/usr/share/man/man1/psd-overlay-helper.1"
gzip -9 "/usr/share/man/man1/psd.1"
gzip -9 "/usr/share/man/man1/psd-overlay-helper.1"
ln -s psd.1.gz "/usr/share/man/man1/profile-sync-daemon.1.gz"
Installing systemd files...
install -p -d "/usr/lib/systemd/user"
install -p -m644 init/psd.service "/usr/lib/systemd/user/psd.service"
install -p -m644 init/psd-resync.service "/usr/lib/systemd/user/psd-resync.service"
install -p -m644 init/psd-resync.timer "/usr/lib/systemd/user/psd-resync.timer"
First run
When profile-sync-daemon is run for the first time, it outputs the following:
[mochapenguin@dv6tqe ~]$ psd p First time running psd so please edit /home/mochapenguin/.config/psd/psd.conf to your liking and run again.
[mochapenguin@dv6tqe ~]$ psd p Profile-sync-daemon v6.25 on Fedora 24 (Workstation Edition) Systemd service is currently active. Systemd resync-timer is currently active. Overlayfs v23 is currently active. Psd will manage the following per /home/mochapenguin/.config/psd/psd.conf: browser/psname: firefox/firefox owner/group id: mochapenguin/1000 sync target: /home/mochapenguin/.mozilla/firefox/fu8u7xk0.default tmpfs dir: /run/user/1000/mochapenguin-firefox-fu8u7xk0.default profile size: 14M overlayfs size: recovery dirs: none browser/psname: google-chrome/chrome owner/group id: mochapenguin/1000 sync target: /home/mochapenguin/.config/google-chrome tmpfs dir: /run/user/1000/mochapenguin-google-chrome profile size: 5.8M overlayfs size: recovery dirs: none
Usage
More information on profile-sync-daemon usage can be found on Arch Linux Profile Sync Daemon page
