From e2055835fda3d2c99378231e4595472bf28631c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:24:17 -0300 Subject: [archiso] Allow persistent cow dm-snapshots. Add some options to control where all COW files will be located. Until this moment all files are located in a tmpfs filesystem. Now is posible to set a device via a filesystem label or device node plus a directory, where all these files will be stored. All dm-snapshot devices will be persistent by default, but this can be changed if wanted. Take care, a filesystem that does not support sparse files maybe is not the best choice for COW files, because they are created with the same size (is apparent) like the read-only device (the image.fs inside .sfs). Of course sooner or later, depending on use, these files actually end up being as big as the read-only device. KNOW-ISSUE: On shutdown in step "Unmounting Filesystems" will [FAIL], all filesystem except $cow_device, will be unmounted/remounted-ro. For this reason this change needs an archiso_shutdown hook, thats unmount all block devices used by archiso. (Work in progress) Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi --- README | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 9c49946..8f59be3 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -35,6 +35,16 @@ INDEX performs a self-test of all files inside ${install_dir}, and continue booting if ok. Default: (unset) +* cow_label= Set the filesystem label where COW (dm-snapshot) + files must be stored. + Default: (unset) +* cow_device= Set the device node where COW (dm-snapshot) files + must be stored. + Default: (unset) or "/dev/disk/by-label/${cow_label}" +* cow_directory= Set a directory inside ${cow_device}. + Default: "/persistent_${archisolabel}/${arch}" +* cow_persistent= Set if snapshots are persistent "P" or non-persistent "N". + Default: "N" (if no ${cow_device} is used) otherwise "P". * cowspace_size= Set the size of tmpfs /cowspace. This space is used for Copy-On-Write files of dm-snapshot. (directory not visible outside initramfs) -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf