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.
A simplified root filesystem structure may be provided for OverlayFS
overlays by squashing the root filesystem directly instead of squashing
an embedded image file at /LiveOS/rootfs.img. Detect and configure
such a squashed root filesystem for live booting.
For OverlayFS boots, avoid the read-only Device-mapper linear device
at /dev/mapper/live-base.
Create a consistent device link at /dev/live-base for the read-only
base loop device for all overlayed live root filesystems.
Consistently provide a link at /dev/root for wait_for_dev.
Update documentation.
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.
Fix issue #279 supercede PR #299
Fix bug https://issues.openmandriva.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2219
Replace Bashisms in the boot message for a missing overlay.
Verify presence of plymouth before calling it.
(Rework of commit f1b65e92af5e3f9df79f99e55d5aa936c9bca940.)
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.
Support booting from USB media with NTFS filesystem (optionally),
which removes the FAT32 related 4 GB file size limit for LiveOS/
squashfs.img (and any other file on the same USB media).
The newer mount utilities are more strict about directly shared
devices. For OverlayFS boots, which mount $BASE_LOOPDEV directly,
avoid a mount error by indirectly sharing the read-only base
filesystem through a second, over-attached $BASE_LOOPDEV for
the DM live-base target.
Provide a more prominent alert to the user if an overlay is
missing or the overlay module is not available and a temporary
overlay will be provided. This, to avoid losing data intended to
persist.
Integrate the option to use an OverlayFS as the root filesystem
into the 90dmsquash-live module for testing purposes.
The rd.live.overlay.overlayfs option allows one to request an
OverlayFS overlay. If a persistent overlay is detected at the
standard LiveOS path, the overlay & type detected will be used.
Tested primarily with transient, in-RAM overlay boots on vfat-
formatted Live USB devices, with persistent overlay directories
on ext4-formatted Live USB devices, and with embedded, persistent
overlay directories on vfat-formatted devices. (Persistent overlay
directories on a vfat-formatted device must be in an embedded
filesystem that supports the creation of trusted.* extended
attributes, and must provide valid d_type in readdir responses.)
The rd.live.overlay.readonly option, which allows a persistent
overlayfs to be mounted read only through a higher level transient
overlay directory, has been implemented through the multiple lower
layers feature of OverlayFS.
The default transient DM overlay size has been adjusted up to 32 GiB.
This change supports comparison of transient Device-mapper vs.
transient OverlayFS overlay performance. A transient DM overlay
is a sparse file in memory, so this setting does not consume more
RAM for legacy applications. It does permit a user to use all of
the available root filesystem storage, and fails gently when it is
consumed, as the available free root filesystem storage on a typical
LiveOS build is only a few GiB. Thus, when booted on other-
than-small RAM systems, the transient DM overlay should not overflow.
OverlayFS offers the potential to use all of the available free RAM
or all of the available free disc storage (on non-vfat-devices)
in its overlay, even beyond the root filesystem available space,
because the OverlayFS root filesystem is a union of directories on
two different partitions.
This patch also cleans up some message spew at shutdown, shortens
the execution path in a couple of places, and uses persistent
DM targets where required.
Documentation is updated for these changes.
8b5ee88ff6 removed the check for SQUASHED,
assuming, that the if clause above was the only place, where SQUASHED is
set.
This patch reverts to the old logic, because SQUASHED can be set
earlier.
Persistent, uncompressed live installations can avoid overlays with a new rd.live.overlay=none flag.
Non-persistent rd.live.ram boots can also take advantage of persistent home.img filesystems.
Transient snapshots can take advantage of smaller,
non-persistent metadata structures.
Make the --readonly option explicit rather than inferred
for the readonly_overlay target.
Assure that the live-base target is on the BASE_LOOPDEV.
Temporary snapshots can take advantage of smaller, non-persistent metadata structures.
Make the --readonly option explicit rather than inferred for the readonly_overlay target.
Assure that the live-base target is on the BASE_LOOPDEV.
Previously rd.live.fsimg only supported filesystems residing in
(compressed) archives.
Now rd.live.fsimg can also be used when a squashfs image is used.
This is achieved by extracting the rootfs image from the squashfs and
then continue with the default routines for rd.live.fsimg.
In addition some code duplication got removed and some documentation
got added.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Deutsch <fabiand@fedoraproject.org>
This option changes the underlying mechanism for the overlay in the
dmsquash module.
Instead of a plain dm snapshot a dm thin snapshot is used. The advantage
of the thin snapshot is, that the TRIM command is recognized, which
means that at runtime, only the occupied blocks will be claimed from
memory, and freed blocks will really be freed in ram.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Deutsch <fabiand@fedoraproject.org>
If the user pressed ESC while checkisomd5 runs the media check, it will
exit with "2". Previously that would mean, that the media check was not
successful.
A user can provide a filesystem image (rootfs.img) inside a compressed
tarball and that filesystem image will be mounted read/write. This provides
some benefits over a device mapper snapshot overlay, especially when the
live system becomes full. The boot command line simple needs
"rd.writable.fsimg" added to utilize this feature.
Additional documentation for this option as well as other live boot
options is included.
Signed-off-by: Major Hayden <major@mhtx.net>
This is similar to the reason for adding the
/run/initramfs/live-baseloop symlink -- access to the original live
image without overlays.
livemedia-creator does not create a osmin.img, so there is no mountable
device for it to use when rsyncing the live image to the target. It
needs a device that points to the original live image without overlays.
Note that lmc won't be creating osmin.img, since really isn't needed any
longer. Its purpose was to provide a minimal image that could be dd'd to
the target. Now that we use rsync this is no longer necessary.
The included patch adds a /dev/mapper/live-base device that Anaconda can
use whether or not there is an osmin present.
The loop driver could be a module and would never be loaded, so the
iso-scan never takes place.
To let the iso-scan happen, it is now placed into the initqueue/settled
unconditionally.
now you can write grub entries like
set isofile="/Fedora-live.iso"
loopback loop $isofile
linux loop)/isolinux/vmlinuz iso-scan/filename=$isofile root=live:CDLABEL=Fedora-...
initrd (loop)/isolinux/initrd0.img
Frederick Grose