Niltze [Hello]- On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 13:52 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Hey, now that we've hit hard freeze for Bullseye, I was hoping that > perhaps we could start making a GCE image for Debian-11 availble? > > For Debian 10, a few months before it was released, there was a test > image that was made available in the debian-cloud-testing project: > > % gcloud compute images --project debian-cloud-testing list --no- > standard-images > NAME PROJECT FAMILY > DEPRECATED STATUS > debian-10-buster-v20191205 debian-cloud-testing debian- > 10 READY > debian-sid-v20190812 debian-cloud-testing debian- > sid READY > > Perhaps it would make sense to make an image for Bullseye in > debian-cloud-testing, so it doesn't accidentally get picked up and > used in production environments before Bullseye gets released as > Debian Stable? > > I've never built a GCE image from scratch before, but if someone > wants > to point me at the instructions, I'm happy to give it a try, You may want to refer to GCE documentation: < https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/building-custom-os > And for the Linux guest tools: < https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/install-guest-environment > Note, however, that when I built reiser4 SFRN 4 -enabled 5.10.23 kernel for Debian 11 Bullseye a few days ago, I had to use the guest environment for Debian 10 Buster since there was not even a repo for bullseye < https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-packages > to include in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud.list So it seems your request cought the GCE developers, essentially, 'with their pants down' since -- as of today, at least -- there is only an empty Google Bullseye repo on their side. Notwithstanding, the Buster Linux env. was enough for my Bullseye Debian Reiser -enhanced image for PoC/testing. If you care to give it a spin, you may import the TARred file to create your own image -- from which to generate your own GCE instances -- with a suggestion like this: gcloud compute images create reiser4-bullseye-v20210325 -- family="debian-11-reiser4" --source-uri g://metztli.it/bullseye_disk_raw.tar.gz After a successful reference image creation, your may spin up your instance(s), with similar as: gcloud compute instances create [instance-name] --custom-cpu=[X] -- custom-memory=[Y]GB --metadata-from-file startup-script=./reghostkey.sh --tags [your tag] --image reiser4-bullseye-v20210325 --boot-disk- size=200GB --zone [your-preferred-zone] where ./reghostkey.sh contains something like: ------------------------------ #! /bin/bash # Regenerates deleted host keys upon Bullseye GCE image first boot sudo su - apt-get update dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=noninteractive openssh-server ##/etc/init.d/ssh restart systemctl try-reload-or-restart ssh ----------------------------------------- and the boot image size is 200GB -- indeed, we do not have resizing feature at the moment. I operate with that minimum Google -recommended disk storage capacity when possible. The GPT hybrid boot image was modified with Gdisk utility and it boots from JFS /boot, has a ~3Gig swap, and the rest is reiser4 SFRN 4.0.2 - formatted. A seven(7) minute overview may be found at either of these two links: < https://youtu.be/WvieIZNH8KM > < https://metztli.blog/amatl/aS4 > As for building your own images, you may start with these excellent bare-bones instructions in this video by a Google dame engineer: 'How to build a custom image for Compute Engine' < https://youtu.be/YlcR6ZLebTM > > and would > be willing to help with updating the debian-cloud-testing project. > > Thanks!! > > - Ted > Best Professional Regards. P.S. Someone tell Mr. Andrew Morton that it is time for him to update his reiser4 Linux source tree hack to version 5.10.x -- as that statement "is so 2006": 'more speculative things which aren't intended for mainline in the short-term, such as new filesystems (eg #reiser4).' < https://www.networkworld.com/article/2280848/kernel-space--interview-with-andrew-morton.html > -- -- Jose R R http://metztli.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- Download Metztli Reiser4: Debian Buster w/ Linux 5.9.16 AMD64 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- feats ZSTD compression https://sf.net/projects/metztli-reiser4/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- or SFRN 5.1.3, Metztli Reiser5 https://sf.net/projects/debian-reiser4/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- Official current Reiser4 resources: https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/
