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..
-w