In some cases (at least in mine) mount(8) is in /usr/bin/mount and
not in /bin/mount as dmsquash-live-root.sh expects. PATH is set to
/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin in that script anyway.
Since cp won't copy a directory over a symlink, any updates that were
supposed to go into e.g. /lib would get dropped if you had /updates/lib
as an actual directory, but the target system had /lib->/usr/lib.
It is useful to know that loop device that the live image's / is mounted
from. Make a /run/initramfs/live-baseloop symlink that points to it.
Edited-By: harald@redhat.com: changed /dev/live-baseloop
to /run/initramfs/live-baseloop
If we're about to start a Live image (i.e. if /dev/mapper/live-rw
exists) this script will take any files found in /updates (inside the
initramfs!) and and copy them into $NEWROOT.
This allows for hotfixes to be applied to existing Live images without
rebuilding the entire image.
Signed-off-by: Will Woods <wwoods@redhat.com>
Currently dmsquash-live-root requires that squashfs images be named
"squashfs.img" and all others be "ext3fs.img" or "rootfs.img".
If we've got a live image in initramfs, this patch will make dracut use
losetup and det_fs to determine the actual filesystem type of the image.
Signed-off-by: Will Woods <wwoods@redhat.com>
- use last ro/rw cmdline arg rather than favoring 'rw' over 'ro'
- don't bother with useless RES variable for holding $?
- only do fs check when $livedev is a block device
Signed-off-by: Will Woods <wwoods@redhat.com>
Fixes long-standing FIXME
Latest isomd5sum added an option to abort media check with ESC key,
but that key is taken by plymouth for switching to the detailed log
messages, making it impossible to abort checkisomd5.
Tested in text mode.
Every image gets handled the same way regardless of filesystem, so
let's use a filesystem-neutral name (rather than adding new
lines for every fstype anyone might want to use).
We want all "/var/run" information to live in /dev/.run, until the real
root is mounted.
Therefore we mount a tmpfs on /dev/.run, which can/will be bind/move mounted
on /var/run later on.
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".
Harald Hoyer