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Re: Hardcoding of ext3 as partman's default filesystem



On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:24:57AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> How about a partman/default_filesystem template in partman-base,
> defaulting to ext3, and then a $default expansion in the filesystem
> field in partitioning recipes? That would make it a matter of a boot
> parameter to change the default filesystem, and would make the code a
> bit more elegant IMO.

I've committed this to trunk. I settled on $default_filesystem as the
recipe substitution; I also added an internal specifier
$default_filesystem{ }, since I didn't like the idea of interpreting
substitutions inside filesystem{ }.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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