On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:03:09AM -0500, Will Woods wrote: > 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..
A generic name of some kind would be good, but probably not just *.img as there may be some cases where other .img files are next to it. I like fsroot.img myself. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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