[Fedora-livecd-list] lzma + squashfs should be easy to use in livecd-tools

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 20:45:48 -0500,
  Jeremy Katz <katzj at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> The biggest question as far as whether or not it's feasible for F13 in
> my mind really is whether or not the code gets accepted upstream.  The
> progress of squashfs patches into the kernel has historically not been
> very fast there.

So far the comments don't seem too bad, though I probably haven't read them
all. We'll probably know within a week if the process is going to be
smooth or not.

I am going to take a look at building the updated squashfs locally by the end
of the weekend. (Maybe yet tonight.) If the patches get accepted, I'd like
to get the new squashfs-tools into rawhide. (I have asked Kyle for commit
access for squashfs-tools, but haven't heard back yet.)

I can also look at a minimal patch set for livecd-tools so I can be ready
to test that right away if we get a kernel with the patches. I'd like to
have a pretty good idea about whether or not this is going to work for
F13 by the end of New Years weekend, so that the Spin owners can commit
to using extra space fairly safely if they desire with some time before
feature freeze. (Though the Games Spin is the one most likely to take
advantage of this.)

Any safety checks or command line option additions should probably be
done by freature freeze so that they are ready for the alpha builds. I don't
think they are necessary to have for feasibility testing.