From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adding support for read/write filesystem images Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:07:05 +0200 Message-ID: <53EE1409.1040404@redhat.com> References: <53DFAB14.1020201@mhtx.net> <53EDE06B.80900@redhat.com> <53EE099D.2070402@mhtx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <53EE099D.2070402-rCS72UCksqc@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Major Hayden , initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On 15.08.2014 15:22, Major Hayden wrote: >> Can you add documentation to the man pages? And if you are really nice add >> documentation about the other dmsquash parameters, too. :) > > Absolutely! :) > > The patch has grown a bit. If it's too difficult to process, I added > the same changes on the GitHub pull request here: > > https://github.com/haraldh/dracut/pull/25 > > Thanks! > > > From 9a9fc958a874867cad34dd3dc072a52353fbffd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Major Hayden > Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 10:27:36 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH] Adding support for read/write filesystem images > > 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 pushed! Thanks!