[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] livecd-iso-to-disk Create an ext4 filesystem by default for home.img

[Brian C. Lane]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:03:09AM -0500, Will Woods wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 15:23 -0800, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:43:05PM +0000, James Heather wrote:
> > > While we're on ext4 things, I wonder whether we could change the name of
> > > the container file for the root filesystem? Currently it's called
> > > 'ext3.img', and contains an ext4 filesystem. It's not exactly a major
> > > issue, but it does annoy me a little...
> > > 
> > > It would be better to call it 'fsroot.img' or something descriptive, to
> > > avoid this kind of thing when ext94 comes out.
> > 
> > Right now it is called ext3fs.img and any changes need to be coordinated
> > with dracut which actually handles mounting it.
> 
> I actually just sent a patch to upstream dracut to allow the use of
> 'btrfs.img':
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.initramfs/1813
> 
> This could probably made even more general - it could accept *.img,
> really. We'll see what upstream thinks..

A generic name of some kind would be good, but probably not just *.img
as there may be some cases where other .img files are next to it. I like
fsroot.img myself.

-- 
Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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