[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] livecd-iso-to-disk Create an ext4 filesystem by default for home.img

[Will Woods]

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