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.
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