On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 4:24 AM Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 2020-01-12 at 15:02 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Do you have any tests to compare plain squashfs xz with zstd? The nested > > ext4 stuff is really pointless now because Fedora hasn't used 'dd' + > > resizing the ext4 file system as an installation method in a long time > > (going back to Fedora 18 I think). All of the Live installations use rsync. > > I am not entirely clear on what this proposal covers (it would actually > be nice if this was specified on the Change page; it's not immediately > clear *which of Fedora's images* are affected by this Change), but are > you sure of this? Do we not do it even for Cloud image deployments or > ARM disk image deployments? ISTR there being a filesystem resize > involved there, which is why I ask...
Cloud images don't use squashfs so they can be ignored. (But yes, some cloud related images do fs resize on first boot.) With one exception [1], all ISO images I've looked at have a squashfs image file on them containing a LiveOS used as system root. If the change proposal implements plain squashfs images, startup assembly will use overlayfs. The current ISOs have a nested ext4 in that squashfs image, and startup assembly uses device-mapper. Also with one exception [1], any ISO with the word "Live" in the filename, might switch from rsync based installation to unsquashfs. The netinstalls and DVD ISOs are unaffected. [1] Fedora CoreOS, fedora-coreos-31.20200113.3.1-live.x86_64.iso (congratulations on the final release btw), which has an initramfs based LiveOS, uses dd for installation, with ignition doing provisioning on first boot that also includes GPT fixup and fs resize. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
