On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4 June 2014 20:26, Jani Monoses <[email protected]> wrote: >> Due to it being called system.img when it was actually flashed to the >> Android system partition, the Ubuntu root filesystem image residing under >> /data/system.img can be easily confused with the Android system.img that is >> under /var/lib/lxc/android/system.img _inside_ the Ubuntu system.img. >> >> How about moving away and calling the Ubuntu image ubuntu.img ? >> Here's a patch to the system-image-upgrader script >> >> https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/#/c/252/ >> >> and one to the initramfs script >> >> https://code.launchpad.net/~jani/ubuntu/utopic/initramfs-tools-ubuntu-touch/image-name/+merge/222091 >> >> They both preserve working with system.img by hardlinking the two names to >> the same file, but prefer ubuntu.img when creating a new image or mounting >> one. >> >> thoughts? >> Jani > > The other ongoing plan is to get rid of loop-mounting image files, and > instead have them on separate partitions. > Such that "ubuntu.img" is actually just a normal, e.g. GPT partition > with a label UBUNTU, and /var/lib/lxc/android/system.img is also a > normal partition.
We'll have to support both use cases anyway, remember we still want to have working nexus devices around (and without changing the partition table for them). Cheers, -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
