[OE-core] [PATCHv2 0/4] wic: Further enhance UUID / fstab support

[Ed Bartosh]

Hi Tom,

Thank you for the great patchset!

+1

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 11:08:16AM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> So, per Ed's feedback on my first series, I went and spent some time
> trying to figure out how to have wic know what the UUID would be when
> updating the fstab.  It turns out the easiest answer here is to have WIC
> make the UUID.  Per Otavio's concern last time, I also make sure that
> the filesystem UUID can be passed in, for reproducibility.  One thing to
> keep in mind here is that FAT filesystem UUIDs are a bit funny to deal
> with as mkfs.vfat / mkdosfs / etc want to be given a 32bit hexadecimal
> value.  But when we talk mount, it must be split and it must be in
> uppercase.  To make the rest of the code easier I'm encoding the '0x'
> portion into part.fsuuid rather than doing "-i 0x%s" in a bunch of
> places.
> 
> While preparing all of this, I found a few minor things such as we did
> not test for squashfs and --use-uuid (not supported) and an incorrect
> comment around the btrfs support.
> 
> Since v1, I've added a testcase into wic.Wic.test_qemu for a UUID mount
> and the UUID that we've given. I think this is cleaner than adding a
> python function to make a wks file just for this task.
> 
> --
> Tom

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Regards,
Ed