[arch-releng] [PATCH 6/6] [RFC] Another batch of improvements for archiso hook

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Wed Feb 17 03:30:21 EST 2010


Am 17.02.2010 06:57, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
> * make /dev/loop0 at archiso install hook, to take advantage of
>   automatic module loading. There is no need for wait cycle.
> * Mount squashfs images directly with mount instead of first using
>   losetup, then mounting. These images are now mounted at
>   /tmpfs/mnt/name-of-the-image instead of /tmpfs/mnt/loopN
>   (count variable removed)
> * Use "/newroot" passed as argument to mount hook.
> * Drop to a recovery shell in cases when FSTYPE detection fail instead of
>   just fail, then kernel panic!
> * $newroot is passed to other _mnt_ functions in the same mountpoint.
> * $copytoram code is removed since does not work with AUFS.
> * Misc code style fixed.

This looks all very good, can we get this broken up in single patches
(preferably with the "mount hook" parts merged with the previous patch)?

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