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Improve lsinitrd to ease debugging for developers and end users. #2552
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This is helpful for debugging some kdump mkdumprd that prefer dracut-squash. To not break when unsquashfs upstream would change the default path prefix, explicitly specify the prefix as argument so users always find files from squash-root.img by using the same hardcoded prefix, both in the file listing and when extracting files. Regarding extract_files (without --unpack): Unsquashfs cannot seem to extract to stdout, so take a detour via a temp file. Regarding --unpack: Even though cpio for comparison would not overwrite files on extracing, pass the force flag to unsquashfs on extracing individual files. Otherwise, unsquashfs complains about its relative top-level directory "squashfs-root" which already exists after the first file was extracted. With the force flag, the user can specify multiple files to extract from squash-root.img, or can invoke lsinitrd multiple times in the same directory to extract multiple files from squash-root.img. Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com>
It's more convenient for debugging than extracting or unpacking the corresponding files. Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com>
I'm not sure how this code change in lsinitrd could affect the few failing integration tests dealing with dracut core and modules. Example fails:
Some run into an initqueue timeout waiting for the root-fs dependencies. Some test seems to get I/O errors after the boot and root-fs mount were already successful:
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Those failures are unrelated to your change - see #2506 |
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I think this is still interesting, so commenting to keep it open after the stale bot added the stale label. |
Changes to lsinitrd
enable unpacking files from squash-root.img
This is helpful for debugging some kdump mkdumprd that prefer dracut-squash.
print stored dracut cmdline
It's more convenient for debugging than extracting or unpacking the corresponding files.
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Factored out from another PR (#2534 (comment)).