Let image_install figures the binary paths out itself as not all distributions
ship the mkfs.* tools in the same location. For example openSUSE ships
mksquashfs in /usr/bin/.
So, i think "erofs" is probably the better, more modern alternative to
"squashfs". Many of the benefits don't matter too much to us I guess,
but there's one thing that stands out: erofs has a UUID in the
superblock, squashfs has not. Having an UUID in the superblock matters
if the file systems are used in an overlayfs stack, as overlayfs uses
the UUIDs to robustly and persistently reference inodes on layers in
case of metadata copy-up.
Since we probably want to allow such uses in overlayfs as emplyoed by
sysext (and the future syscfg) we probably should ramp up our erofs game
early on. Hence let's natively support erofs, test it, and in fact
mention it in the docs before squashfs even.
To make sure rootless mode keeps working, let's run all repart
integration tests that we can without root privileges. The only ones
we need to keep running with root privileges are the tests that operate
on a block/loop device and those that use --image=.
mkfs.vfat doesn't support specifying a root directory to bootstrap
the filesystem from (see https://github.com/dosfstools/dosfstools/issues/183).
Instead, we can use the mcopy tool from the mtools package to copy
files into the vfat filesystem after creating it without needing to
mount the vfat filesystem.
This commit adds a new Verity= setting to repart definition files
with two possible values: "data" and "hash".
If Verity= is set to "data", repart works as before, and populates
the partition with the content from CopyBlocks= or CopyFiles=.
If Verity= is set to "hash", repart will try to find a matching
data partition with Verity=data and equal values for CopyBlocks=
or CopyFiles=, Format= and MakeDirectories=. If a matching data
partition is found, repart will generate verity hashes for that
data partition in the verity partition. The UUID of the data
partition is set to the first 128 bits of the verity root hash. The
UUID of the hashes partition is set to the final 128 bits of the
verity root hash.
Fixes#24559
Specifying the test number manually is tedious and prone to errors (as
recently proven). Since we have all the necessary data to work out the
test number, let's do it automagically.
