[arch-releng] Call for test: archiso with dm-snapshot

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 06/15/2011 05:38 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 15.06.2011 02:49, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>> On 06/14/2011 02:21 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>>> Am 14.06.2011 17:12, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>>>> I know about it, but if you insist I will do it, no problem.
>>>>
>>>> I personally dislike the idea, since it is currently divided in a
>>>> certain logical form(ArchLinux in one place, Syslinux in another), and
>>>> serves the time to put several "Linux's" on the same storage medium,
>>>> sharing the same bootloader
>>> I want to eventually be able to copy just the 'arch' folder onto another
>>> medium, install syslinux and use the arch live environment without
>>> modifications.
>>>
>>> Currently, this is messy, and it will only get better if we get the
>>> syslinux stuff into /arch.
>>>
>>> We can discuss this further if you like, which use cases do you know for
>>> this separation?
>>>
>> OK, done it. Since this is specific to isolinux component of syslinux. I
>> pushed it on /isolinux ;)
>>
>> /mnt/
>> ├── arch
>> │ ├── aitab
>> │ ├── any
>> │ │ ├── core-any-pkgs.sfs
>> │ │ └── usr-share.fs.sfs
>> │ ├── boot
>> │ │ ├── i686
>> │ │ │ ├── archiso.img
>> │ │ │ └── vmlinuz26
>> │ │ ├── memtest
>> │ │ ├── memtest.COPYING
>> │ │ └── syslinux
>> │ │ ├── *.0
>> │ │ ├── *.c32
>> │ │ ├── *.com
>> │ │ ├── hdt
>> │ │ │ ├── modalias.gz
>> │ │ │ └── pciids.gz
>> │ │ ├── memdisk
>> │ │ ├── splash.png
>> │ │ └── syslinux.cfg
>> │ └── i686
>> │ ├── core-pkgs.sfs
>> │ ├── lib-modules.fs.sfs
>> │ └── root-image.fs.sfs
>> └── isolinux
>> ├── boot.cat
>> ├── isolinux.bin
>> └── isolinux.cfg
>>
>> OK?
>>
> Do you have test builds somewhere (one image is enough, like net-i686)?
>
My upstream is really poor, I can upload if you want, it will take about 
of 11 hours or more for ~195M :s

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