[Fedora-livecd-list] how to enable btrfs for livecd ?

[Alan Pevec]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Valent Turkovic
> <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jasper Hartline
>> <jasper.hartline at 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