[Fedora-livecd-list] non-vfat msdos usb sticks, persistence, misc... was Re: [PATCH] disable mksquashfs progress bar for non-interactive sessions

[Douglas McClendon]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 21:23 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
>> Note, I forgot to do an os.unlink of osmin from build_dir/data after its 
>> mksquashfs.  So until you do that, an extra 10kb or so is wasted with an 
>> extra copy in the main squashfs.
> 
> Done.
> 
>> I won't try to offer a patch as I'm sure you can do it easily, and with 
>> the layout flux...  I'd suggest... hmm...  msdos(not vfat) sticks?...
>>
>> Is it really worth supporting msdos-nonvfat filesystems?  Is any stick 
>> that isn't meant to be capable of holding an mp3 with a beyond 8.3 
>> filename really worth supporting?  Do sticks/cards often come 
>> preformatted that way?  (  maybe they do... :(  )
> 
> Trying to guarantee anything about how things come pre-formatted seems
> to be ... a path to losing, sadly.  And really, when there's not a good
> reason _to_ use long file names, we might as well be conservative.
> 
>> Clearly that would shoot down the last of my layout changes that adds 
>> the fslabel to the squashfs.img filename (unless you fell back to 
>> checking for the shorter version).
> 
> I'm not sold on label in the filename, to be honest.  Especially with
> then having to encode it on the filesystem to work with USB sticks given
> the UUID fun.  Which is why I backed off on it a little before Fedora 7
> when the idea came up.

Yeah, complexity-wise it was more than all the other stuff combined, for 
a smaller immediate benefit.

-dmc