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 -- livecd mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
