Re: [RFC 1/2] IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE Cleanup

[Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 23:38 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
> This basic cleanup removes the _ext2/3 overrides from places they
> no longer belong since they did not allow further overrides. In doing
> this the core-image-minimal* recipes can now set a reasonably small
> rootfs so that it's a realistic size for minimal.

Awesome. Thanks for tackling this!

Few questions below.

> 
> The new default for minimal is 8M and will be adujsted upward by the
> IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR (of 1.2).
> 
> This fixes the ROOTFS_SIZE usage in the IMAGE_CMD_<fstype> code
> 
> Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  meta/classes/image_types.bbclass                   |    7 +++++--
>  meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc    |    2 --
>  meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc                 |    2 --
>  .../images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb         |    2 ++
>  meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb     |    2 ++
>  5 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
> index ec0cafd..69f859e 100644
> --- a/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
> +++ b/meta/classes/image_types.bbclass
> @@ -21,22 +21,25 @@ runimagecmd () {
>  }
>  
>  IMAGE_CMD_jffs2 = "mkfs.jffs2 --root=${IMAGE_ROOTFS} --faketime --output=${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.jffs2 ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD}"
> +
>  IMAGE_CMD_cramfs = "mkcramfs ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.cramfs ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD}"
> +
>  IMAGE_CMD_ext2 = "genext2fs -b $ROOTFS_SIZE -d ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD} ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext2"
>  IMAGE_CMD_ext2.gz () {
>  	rm -rf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz && mkdir ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz
> -	genext2fs -b ${IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE} -d ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD} ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext2
> +	genext2fs -b $ROOTFS_SIZE -d ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD} ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext2
>  	gzip -f -9 ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext2
>  	mv ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext2.gz ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext2.gz
>  	rmdir ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz
>  }
> +
>  IMAGE_CMD_ext3 () {
>  	genext2fs -b $ROOTFS_SIZE -d ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD} ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext3
>  	tune2fs -j ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext3
>  }
>  IMAGE_CMD_ext3.gz () {
>  	rm -rf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz && mkdir ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz
> -	genext2fs -b ${IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE} -d ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD} ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext3
> +	genext2fs -b $ROOTFS_SIZE -d ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${EXTRA_IMAGECMD} ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext3
>  	tune2fs -j ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext3
>  	gzip -f -9 ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext3
>  	mv ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/tmp.gz/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext3.gz ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.ext3.gz
> diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
> index 1aa45c8..4b68a0a 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
> +++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/default-distrovars.inc
> @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
>  QA_LOGFILE = "${TMPDIR}/qa.log"
>  
> -IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE_ext2 ?= "131072"
> -
>  OEINCLUDELOGS ?= "yes"
>  KERNEL_CONSOLE ?= "ttyS0"
>  
> diff --git a/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc b/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
> index 4122a88..9ef242f 100644
> --- a/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
> +++ b/meta/conf/machine/include/qemu.inc
> @@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ MACHINE_FEATURES = "kernel26 apm alsa pcmcia bluetooth irda usbgadget screen"
>  IMAGE_FSTYPES ?= "tar.bz2 ext3"
>  
>  ROOT_FLASH_SIZE = "280"
> -IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE_ext2 ?= "280000"
> -IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE_ext3 ?= "280000"
>  
>  # Don't include kernels in standard images
>  RDEPENDS_kernel-base = ""
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb
> index 21aaa6c..3246d5c 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal-initramfs.bb
> @@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ IMAGE_LINGUAS = ""
>  LICENSE = "MIT"
>  
>  inherit core-image
> +
> +IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"

I'm not really sure about this, an initramfs that's the same size as a
more fully featured rootfs?

> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb
> index aa00e67..743e121 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb
> @@ -9,5 +9,7 @@ LICENSE = "MIT"
>  
>  inherit core-image
>  
> +IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"
> +

In your cover letter you stated that the minimal image is currently
9.9M, which means we *need* the overhead to contain the entire image
contents. Correct? That seems a little unwise.

>  # remove not needed ipkg informations
>  ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "remove_packaging_data_files ; "

-- 
Joshua Lock
        Yocto Project Build Monkey
        Intel Open Source Technology Centre