Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

Harald Hoyer harald.hoyer at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 13:56:39 UTC 2012


Am 03.02.2012 11:33, schrieb Kay Sievers:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:25, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 02/02/12 18:47, Kay Sievers wrote:
>>>
>>> The former dracut ‘usrmove’ module has been renamed to ‘convertfs’. We
>>> need to carry that option for quite some time through future releases
>>
>> Does this mean that ‘convertfs’ will be build into dracut-*?
> 
> The module will be provided by dracut for at least the next two Fedora
> releases, to be able to upgrade older installations with just yum.
> 
>> Does the user\tester have to keep doing "--force --add"?
> 
> For now, the module is not included by default. We will have a call to
> that script in anaconda, so updates from media will not need any of
> these steps. Manual updates with dracut will need that.
> 
>> Does rd.convertfs have to stay on /etc/grub.cfg
>> Shoule we adjust /etc/dracut.conf "add_extramodules=convertfs"
> 
> Only once, It can also be be entered one time at the bootloader.
> 
> Kay

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_Fedora_17


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