From: Jack Hill <jackhill@jackhill.us>
To: 45974@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45974: guix system vm-image ignores filesystem type
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:12:04 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2101181955250.2314@marsh.hcoop.net> (raw)
Hi Guix,
I believe that this is a feature request. I would like to create a Guix
qcow2 image to run as a VM. Additionally, I would like the root file
system to be btrfs. Therefore, I created an operating system definition
with the following file-systems:
```
(file-systems (cons (file-system
(mount-point "/")
(device "/dev/vda1")
(type "btrfs")
(flags '(no-atime))
(options "compress=zstd"))
%base-file-systems))
```
I then ran `guix system vm-image --image-size=10G --volatile config.scm`.
That successfully created a qcow2 image, but the root file system was ext4
instead of btrfs.
Ideally, I would get an image with a btrfs filesystem. I expect supporting
all combinations of filesystems and mapped devices might be challenging
for the image creation process, but some more options might be
interesting. At the very least, I think a warning or error when the
requested configuration is not supported would be appropriate.
What do you think about this feature?
Best,
Jack
reply other threads:[~2021-01-19 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://guix.gnu.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=alpine.DEB.2.21.2101181955250.2314@marsh.hcoop.net \
--to=jackhill@jackhill.us \
--cc=45974@debbugs.gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).