On 08/23/2011 04:42 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
For details see the second patch. First patch is to avoid code duplication.
This is based from my experimental branch (wating for ACK to merge in master).
Just building the baseline profile is sufficient to test it.
qemu-img create -f qcow2 /tmp/persi.qcow2 1G
qemu -cdrom archlinux-2011.08.23-i686.iso -hda /tmp/persi.qcow2 -boot d
Create one partiton, make an ext2/3/4 filesystem, set a label, reboot,
add to kernel cmdline cow_label=MY_LABEL, and enjoy.
https://github.com/djgera/archiso/tree/cow_persistent
This work is now merged in master branch. When mkinitcpio-busybox
1.19.2-1 hits [core] (now in [testing]) will be available in testing isos ;)
know issue: is harmless, on shutdown Unmounting filesystem will [FAIL]
because filesystem used to store *.cow are in used. This filesystem and
others will be unmounted on "deinitramfs" stage ;)
Good luck.
/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201110 194M 194M 0 100% /run/archiso/bootmnt
/dev/disk/by-label/pepito 1007M 21M 935M 3% /run/archiso/cowspace
/dev/loop100 86M 86M 0 100%
/run/archiso/sfs/root-image
/dev/mapper/arch_root-image 591M 272M 319M 47% /
/dev/loop103 32M 32M 0 100%
/run/archiso/sfs/lib-modules
/dev/mapper/arch_lib-modules 92M 40M 52M 43% /lib/modules
/dev/loop106 58M 58M 0 100%
/run/archiso/sfs/usr-share
/dev/mapper/arch_usr-share 448M 172M 276M 39% /usr/share
/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201110 194M 194M 0 100% /bootmnt
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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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