On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 21:26 -0500, Major Hayden wrote: > On Jul 28, 2014, at 17:11, Will Woods <wwoods@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Since your systems have lots of RAM, why not just use a regular ext4 > > filesystem image as your root filesystem? Then you don't need to worry > > about blowing up the overlay at all. > > Are you suggesting an ext4 r/w filesystem stored in RAM? I haven't > seen how to do that in dracut with the existing scripts. Any filesystem image *should* work as a live image. dmsquash-live images get handled specially, but plain ext4 (or squashfs, or cramfs, or btrfs, or whatever) should work just as well. See dmsquash-live-root.sh, where (if given a filesystem image) it checks the filesystem type and mounts it accordingly: https://github.com/haraldh/dracut/blob/master/modules.d/90dmsquash-live/dmsquash-live-root.sh#L64 Or just try it: root=live:http://host.your.sys/path-to/ext4.img If this doesn't work, that's a bug in dracut, and should be filed accordingly. -w -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
