Bug#773868: Patch to support overlay
Control: tag 773881 + patch
Hi Steven,
Steven Shiau wrote (13 Feb 2015 14:25:49 GMT) :
> I modified live-boot to support overlay from Linux kernel >=3.18 a few
> days ago, by referring to kiwi from OpenSuSE.
> Attached please find the patch to support overlayfs for live-boot 4.
Thanks for working on this!
I'm redirecting this discussion to #773881, since #773868 was about
a smaller, more specific problem, which has been resolved already.
Please send replies to 773881@bugs.debian.org only.
This patch doesn't apply on current debian-next branch
(live-boot 5.x), which is were overlayfs support should be fixed,
since live-boot 4.x is frozen and Jessie won't have overlayfs
support anyway.
I've imported your patch into Git, on top of debian-next + the other
fix I've attached to #773881 a few weeks ago. I've added a few code
cleanups and small refactoring bits on top, and the result can be
found in the feature/overlayfs branch of the Tails live-boot Git
repository:
https://git-tails.immerda.ch/live-boot
After applying my current patch set to live-boot 5.0~a1-1, I could
successfully boot a Tails (Wheezy) system with union=overlay
=> please review and merge.
(Now, after booting our custom GDM Greeter is frozen, so I'll have to
investigate deeper, but at least it now mounts the rootfs and boots :)
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=21;filename=0001-Loading-chosen-union-filesystem-s-kernel-module-befo.patch;att=1;bug=773881
Cheers,
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