[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH 6/7] anaconda: liveinst.sh: support turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 12:34 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> this patch takes care of the anaconda side of taking advantage of 
> livecd's created with a livecd-tools that has 
> turboLiveInst/genMinInstDelta support.  But the code does check for the 
> legacy situation, and handles it gracefully.  Thus this patch is safe 
> even in the absence of the actual beneficial final patch to livecd-tools.

So as you alluded in your later mail, this looks like it could be
confused if something else ended up using loop118 instead.  Is there a
good reason not to just set up the minimal snapshot from the initrd and
then just use it if it exists?  That would then make the anaconda side
super-crazy-simple (look for /dev/mapper/live-osimg-min and use it if it
exists).  

The only downside I can see is that the snapshot is always set up which
probably has some resource cost, but I can't see it being that high.

Jeremy