On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian(a)when.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jasper Hartline
> <jasper.hartline(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> The bug you just tried to hijack is related to the Anaconda installer,
>> and kickstart files used for it. Not livecd-tools or livecd-creator.
>> livecd-creator is tied heavily to Ext3 currently, and unless you are
>> willing to write patches currently
>> there is no quick fix to use BTRFS on the LiveCD, LiveCD is SquashFS
>> anyways, the only part which is
>> added which has a usable filesystem is the COW Ext3 in an overlay file
>> which is created when using livecd-iso-to-disk
>>
>> Anaconda and livecd-creator or two different things.
>
> Thank you for your explanation and quick reply, I just tested LiveUSB
> image od Meego 1.0 that is based on Fedora and uses btrfs fs iso
> image. How have they made it?
>From what I understand, they are using a forked version of
livecd-creator. Here (and generally in their GIT repos) are the
sources:
http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/image-creator
I haven't looked at the changes they made, though.
Hi Yi, do you have any plans to post some of your work upstream i.e. here?
If not, we'll start to cherry-pick from your repo, lots of good stuff
there, like btrfs support :)
Thanks,
Alan
> Is anybody from Fedora/RedHat in contact with Meego team and
knows
> how they managed to create btrfs liveusb image it that function is not
> currently build into Fedora 13's Anaconda installer.
I think the Mini SIG is the closest there. However, for image creation
this should be the right place here already.
--Sebastian