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FS#52581 - add support for squashfs root bigger than 4G

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Opened by Kieran Colford (kieranc) - Monday, 16 January 2017, 18:09 GMT
Last edited by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Friday, 23 February 2018, 03:09 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category ArchISO
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Although the ISO file format can handle squashfs images bigger than 4G, you cannot extract it to a FAT32 file system as is described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_flash_installation_media#In_GNU.2FLinux_2

While this isn't necessarily relevant to the official Arch ISO, some downstreams (like blackarch) suffer from this. Rather than filing a report there it made more sense to upstream the issue.

Could you use dmsetup or mdadm to place the squashfs image on a linear RAID array of image files? And can you also add support to the mkinitcpio hooks for this?
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Closed by  Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera)
Friday, 23 February 2018, 03:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  use a better filesystem
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Wednesday, 18 January 2017, 04:08 GMT
looks like title is wrong. squashfs can grow beyond 4G, the issue is the fs layer that contain such image, in this use a more advanced than FAT fs, ntfs, ext4, etc...
Sure if things does not get complex patches are welcomed.

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