Re: [ptxdist] root.ext2

2017-05-12 Thread Michael Olbrich
Hi, On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 06:14:21PM +0200, Clemens Gruber wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 10:02:10AM +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote: > > mkfs.ext4 in the current version can add content to the filesystem. So that > > is the way to go. I started a patch for genimage to use it, but so far I'm > >

Re: [ptxdist] root.ext2

2017-05-11 Thread Clemens Gruber
Hi, On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 10:02:10AM +0200, Michael Olbrich wrote: > mkfs.ext4 in the current version can add content to the filesystem. So that > is the way to go. I started a patch for genimage to use it, but so far I'm > lacking the time to finish this. > The main problem is, that mkfs.ext4 c

Re: [ptxdist] root.ext2

2017-05-08 Thread Michael Olbrich
Hi, On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 05:56:40PM +0200, Clemens Gruber wrote: > I noticed that the image-root-ext and image_ext2 rule still uses > genext2fs to first create an ext2 filesystem and then uses tune2fs to > convert it to ext3 and subsequently to ext4. > > I think it is time to create ext4 image

[ptxdist] root.ext2

2017-05-07 Thread Clemens Gruber
Hi, I noticed that the image-root-ext and image_ext2 rule still uses genext2fs to first create an ext2 filesystem and then uses tune2fs to convert it to ext3 and subsequently to ext4. I think it is time to create ext4 images directly, otherwise we can't use features like flex_bg and extra_isize b