Use multiple lower layer directories in a single OverlayFS mount with
a transient overlay directory.
Tolerate a command line with rd.live.overlay.readonly and NO persistent
overlay by reconfiguring the OverlayFS mount options.
Use more compatible shell syntax for testing symlinks, and use printf
instead of echo -e.
Adjust sysroot.mount configuration for rd.live.overlay.overlayfs option.
Use link at /dev/root as a consistent flag for wait_for_dev.
Adjust documentation.
JobRunningTimeoutSec now affects how long can start jobs for device
units stay in the "running" state. Disabling default job timeout via
JobTimeoutSec=0 doesn't disable running state timeout. We need to set
running state timeout as well.
Note that doing this the other way around has effect on generic timeout,
i.e. disabling running state timeout disables generic timeout. But doing
it this way we would create implicit dependency on fairly new
systemd-234. However, by setting both options we don't create dependency
on specific systemd version.
This is a further improvement on PR #105 which re-adds support for nfs:// urls to root=live:nfs://... Symptoms prior to applying this patch are that sysroot.mount times out when following the nfs:// syntax for the path to the live image. An additional case is added to livenet-generator to support the nfs protocol.
Resolves issues where systemd attempts to boot a live URL as an NFS mount.
This patch uses systemd's generator arg[2] to generate an early sysroot.mount
that preempts systemd-fstab-generator.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1280103
This allows creation of initramfs images which contain a Live system.
The primary use for this is keeping very large initramfs-based systems
(e.g. anaconda, the Fedora installer) compressed in-memory, by using a
compressed filesystem image like squashfs or btrfs.
dmsquash-live-genrules.sh will initqueue dmsquash-live-root itself
(rather than making udev rules) if the given live "device" is actually
an existing, plain file.
parse-dmsquash-live.sh will only accept paths that end in ".img".
dmsquash-live-root will only handle images named "*squashfs.img",
"*ext3fs.img", or "*btrfs.img".
livecd-creator previously added 'liveimg' and used root=CDLABEL=;
it's easy enough to support that old syntax for now at least
and it will make it easier to get people testing
Fedora/Red Hat live images are implemented as an ext3fs inside of
a squashfs. Writability is achieved with a device-mapper snapshot
on top of that.
This gives the basic support without a lot of things like persistent
overlays, iso md5sum checking, etc and also with a new basic syntax
that has to be specified as root=live:LABEL=...
Harald Hoyer