On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 06:30:53PM +0200, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:58:44PM +0200, Dario Freni wrote:
> > I'm working on including this variable that contains a directory path
> > to copy the entire $FREESBIEBASEDIR in it before doing the
> > modification needed for iso final filesystem. The main advantage is
> > that the original fs is not altered, and subsequent fs modification
> > will be almost immediately done. We have had this problem many times
> > during the release ISO creation, and dave had to backup the filesystem
> > manually before creating the iso. The main disadvantage is that twice
> > of the space on the hard disk is required. What do you think about it?
> 
> What about making it a configurable option?

Is a somewhat big problem using twice of the space? If you have 1Gb
free for make a livefs I suppose you've got another one free. What am
I missing?

> 
> > I'm also working on substituting create_compressed_fs with mkuzip(1)
> > hoping this will lead to a slight increment of performances.
> 
> Last time I checked it was not so easy, but you'll problably succeed where
> I failed =)
> Best Regards

That was easy man :)

cupa:/usr/local/freesbieiso/cloop# head -5 *.cloop
==> usr.cloop <==
#!/bin/sh
#V2.0 Format
m=geom_uzip
(kldstat -n $m 2>&-||kldload $m)>&-&&mount_cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -af $0`.uzip $1
exit $?

==> var.cloop <==
#!/bin/sh
#V2.0 Format
m=geom_uzip
(kldstat -n $m 2>&-||kldload $m)>&-&&mount_cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -af $0`.uzip $1
exit $?
cupa:/usr/local/freesbieiso/cloop#


/usr/local/freesbieiso is my $FREESBIEISODIR, I left $FREESBIEBASEDIR untouched.

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