diskimage-builder/releasenotes/notes/root-journal-size-618e064d6681699a.yaml
Logan V 11142f75b4 Allow specification of filesystem journal size
In many cases, the statically sized 64MB journal is far below the
e2fstools default calculation[0] which calls for a 64MB journal only
on filesystems smaller than 16GB. On bare metal in particular, the
correct default journal size will often be in the 512MB-1GB range.

Since we cannot know what the target system is, this should be a
tunable parameter that the user can set depending on the intended
image usage.

Add a DIB_JOURNAL_SIZE envvar and --mkfs-journal-size parameter
to the image creation so users can override the default journal
size.

[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git/tree/lib/ext2fs/mkjournal.c#n333

Change-Id: I65fa13a088eecdfe61636678578577ea2cfb3c0c
2019-04-29 17:00:30 +10:00

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features:
- The ``--mkfs-journal-size`` option is added to override the default
journal size for basic ext4 root partitions.