[arch-releng] [PATCH 6/6] [RFC] Another batch of improvements for archiso hook
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Wed Feb 17 16:15:54 EST 2010
On 02/17/2010 05:30 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> 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)?
>
>
yes, I will see what I can do, in fact I am not very friend of making
several changes at once, but in this case there are several tightly linked.
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