From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 01:30:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170512013019.49c3d33d@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wp9rmo4d.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Ludo,
>I’d prefer to add a special ‘iso-9660-uuid’ form similar to ‘uuid’ in (gnu system file-systems).
> That way we could detect that we get a valid UUID at macro-expansion
> time or system-instantiation time, rather than end up with an error at
> boot time.
Hmm, I've never seen that macro before. Should it be used in config.scm ?
Right now config.scm could have:
(file-systems (cons* (file-system
(device "1234-5678-....")
(title 'uuid)
(mount-point "/")
(type "ext4")
(needed-for-boot? #t))
Which kind of UUID is it then? Should string->uuid try to be clever about it? Or a new function string->uuid-like ?
find-partition-by-uuid right now uses read-partition-uuid and then uses bytevector=?.
So all these forms should continue to be bytevectors. Then it would work fine without lots of changes.
So something like this?
- Add "string->uuid-like" and use it in canonical-title (instead of using "string->uuid").
- string->uuid-like would have a case analysis by some weird markers, then parse the uuid using the right parser into a bytevector with length typical-for-this-filesystem-but-not-unique.
- Modify uuid->string to have a case analysis by the bytevector length, then print the uuid using the right printer into a string typical-for-this-filesystem. This will fail to detect ISO9660 correctly because these are the same length as real uuids (Linux uses 16 bytes of the 17-byte iso9660-uuid)
- Leave the uuid macro as-is since it should already do the right thing then?
- Add a new macro fat32-uuid, and a new macro iso9660-uuid.
String lengths:
- FAT32 UUID-string: 3 Byte to 9 Byte (variable-length numerals. Is that actually how Linux writes them? I misplaced my USB stick... where is it? *mumbles*)
- ISO9660 UUID-string: 16 Byte (fixed-length numerals). That's the same length as the ISO9660 bytevector since it's actually the same content
- Real UUID-string: 36 Byte
Bytevector lengths (right now):
- FAT32 UUID: 4 Byte
- ISO9660 UUID: 16 Byte (oops...)
- Real UUID: 16 Byte
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-11 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-18 14:17 GuixSD on servers [Fwd: [rtracker.1984.is #131647] A question about VServer system specific requirements] ng0
2017-04-18 15:16 ` Chris Marusich
2017-04-19 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-23 4:52 ` Chris Marusich
2017-04-24 5:11 ` GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image (was: Re: GuixSD on servers [Fwd: [rtracker.1984.is #131647] A question about VServer system specific requirements]) Chris Marusich
2017-04-27 13:42 ` GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-27 17:08 ` GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image (was: Re: GuixSD on servers [Fwd: [rtracker.1984.is #131647] A question about VServer system specific requirements]) Danny Milosavljevic
2017-04-27 20:00 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-04-28 8:18 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-02 12:37 ` GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-02 12:53 ` ng0
2017-05-03 6:26 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-05-02 20:09 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-02 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-07 19:37 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-08 14:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-11 23:30 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2017-05-12 15:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-14 21:25 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-05-16 8:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-06 9:35 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-06-08 12:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-02 20:12 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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