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Test archzfs-qemu-lts-test-01-root-bootfs |
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Tests all the steps required for archzfs-linux-lts to be used as a boot filesystem. |
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Builds a custom archiso with the linux-lts kernel used by packer to create a Qemu base image. Syslinux is used as the boot |
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1. The archzfs-linux-lts packages are built for the linux-lts kernel and added to a package repository named "archzfs-testing". |
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#. The archzfs-testing repo is shared over NFS. |
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#. A custom archiso is built that boots into the linux-lts kernel. See `Archiso customization`_ |
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#. The test files are compressed into a tar archive. |
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#. Packer is used to build a qemu base image using the custom archiso. |
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#. `setup.sh` is ran in the archiso to install arch on ZFS. |
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#. After installation of Arch on ZFS, the VM is rebooted and packer finalizes the base image. |
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#. The qemu base image created by packer is booted, if the boot is successful, the test is considered passed. |
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Archiso customization |
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At the time of putting this test together (2016.09.03), there was no stable ZFSonLinux release that supported kernel 4.7 and |
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the archiso release at the time shipped with kernel 4.7. In order to install Arch on ZFS for test, I needed an archiso with |
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the linux-lts kernel. Thus, the archzfs-archiso was born! |
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The archiso is built by `test.sh` and used by packer to create a Qemu base image with ZFS as the root filesystem for testing. |
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The archiso comes with a bunch of features that are not needed in test, so they have been stripped out or modified. This |
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* boot straight into the linux-lts kernel to speed up the testing cycle. |
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* ZFS does not support arch-i686, so it was stripped. |
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* iPXE was not needed. |
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The archiso sources are copied from `/usr/share/archiso/configs/releng` after installation of the "archiso" package. The |
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modifed code is contained in the `testing/archiso-linux-lts` directory of this project. |
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