The squashfs format brings a couple of advantages over the other
formats. Image is often an order of magnitude smaller and it can
be used natively, either as an initrd, either with loop mount.
Change-Id: If72940b0c4dafb2504c52dd0429a8eb3f8305751
We now support tgz (tar.gz) as an output format.
Change-Id: Iadec92f2f96c3f904f28bd49f87ffc7d48ef7bd7
Signed-off-by: Paul Belanger <pabelanger@redhat.com>
mkfs's arguments are
mkfs [options] [-t type] [fs-options] device [size]
So it seems our MKFS_OPTS are really supposed to be fs-options, rather
than options to mkfs itself.
Why didn't we notice? It's quite a trap -- mkfs.ext2 has a "-t"
option, so when we're calling
$ mkfs -i 4096 ... -t ext4 ...
We actually just fall-back to the default from the mkfs wrapper which
is mkfs.ext2 which works! But when you make that, say, xfs, we're not
calling the right wrapper at all.
Also update documentation
Closes-Bug: #1648287
Change-Id: I3ea5807088ab361bd9c235c07fb1553fbaf9178b
This reverts commit 5184d02a7c.
The decision was made to go with fstrim because it is faster and more
universal that zerofree. The related-id has the patchset that implements
fstrim.
Related-Id: I269b4416be450369616f9b8e030f84c30e329804
Change-Id: If40cf2fc0ecd8686768cbfeac9ecee90907674e7
If the image has an ext filesystem and the zerofree utility is present
on the build system then run zerofree. This should make images as
compressable as possible which is a nice feature when building
compressed qcow2 images.
Change-Id: Ia6062c291f7a3f58b85a4f408ecb3d0574c65d53
speedup section explains the user how to sppedup image build by using
tmpfs. The correct user guide to have this section, is the user guide
about image building rather than the installation user guide.
Change-Id: I96b90bd79df53db4f926a928ae3c86b888315230
End user docs would benefit from a section about the byte-to-inode
ratio, and why it's set the way it is. This update explains why
and how to manipulate the ratio depending on the intended use.
Change-Id: Iffb5ef6f4c7c74f4aa6e25912d4991d7a611c8fe
Closes-bug: 1512841
Install-types are a user facing feature, not just for developers. Lets
move the docs on them in to the user guide.
Change-Id: I6ee8f657c270cf90da9c0729494740bb23aa47c5
Our docs are very developer focused. Lets create a separate user guide
to help new users get started.
Change-Id: I8a03920e6d3306dd0405177875ea55ccb4b40fea
