On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:35 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 13:20 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Darko Ilic wrote:
> > I wanted to ask what are the opinions on the subject, and is there any chance
> > for SquashFS to make it's way into Fedora kernel by FC5? I`ve heard it was
> > submitted to LKML recently and there was some discussions surrounding that
> > and that it is a likely candidate for the upstream kernel.
>
> If it makes it upstream, then most likely, yes.
I'd like to see a quality Fedora LiveCD. At my day job we're evaluating
livecds for kiosks, recovery, and lab installs. What has struck me in
recent days is that they're _all_ Debian based. If we want this to
change, we need to create liveCDs that
I think a lot of people want to see a live CD and there's something of a
push to get all of the pieces in place for in the FC5 timeframe.
squashfs and unionfs are both kernel modules that are pretty
standard
fare in the liveCD world but are not part of the mainline kernel. We
need to include them in Fedora in order to advance our reputation in the
liveCD arena.
And the answer to this, at least traditionally, is that the answer is to
get the modules integrated upstream.
Personally, I don't even think this is the biggest area that needs work
for a real, compelling live CD. Rather, various pieces of the stateless
infrastructure need to be finished and integrated into the core.
There are three alternatives here. 1) We don't care about
LiveCDs. If
you want to make a serious LiveCD based on Fedora, you have to fork and
maintain some packages outside of the Fedora arena.
Come on, it's not that you _can't_ do a live cd without them.
2) We get these
integrated into Core despite the fact that they aren't upstream
[Example: GFS]
And you'll note that GFS is gone again in the development due to the
problems that were had...
3) We integrate these modules in Extras.
We're working on module packaging for Extras. This could potentially be
a way to get people who really want squashfs and unionfs but aren't
willing to try to push upstream...
Jeremy