From 2bd2e11e5aa7f9441dcff5b62d26722391d9c8e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:14:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] switch ext2 image creation to use loop mounting instead of
 genext2fs

---
 debian/changelog |  7 ++++++-
 debian/control   |  2 +-
 livecd.sh        | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index cc08038a..b2d58e02 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 livecd-rootfs (1.139) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
+  [ Steve Langasek ]
   * One more undefined variable fix for set -u
 
- -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:10:44 +0200
+  [ Oliver Grawert ]
+  * drop genext2fs, it is simply to slow, instead we use a loop munted ext2
+    image now.
+
+ -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com>  Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:12:18 +0200
 
 livecd-rootfs (1.138) maverick; urgency=low
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 31e54293..d0d15536 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Vcs-Bzr: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/livecd-rootfs/trunk
 
 Package: livecd-rootfs
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debootstrap, rsync, python-minimal | python, procps, squashfs-tools (>= 1:3.3-1), grep-dctrl, fdupes, lsb-release, lzma, genext2fs
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debootstrap, rsync, python-minimal | python, procps, squashfs-tools (>= 1:3.3-1), grep-dctrl, fdupes, lsb-release, lzma, e2fsprogs
 Suggests: partimage
 Description: construction script for the livecd rootfs
  livecd-rootfs provides the script used to create the root filesystem
diff --git a/livecd.sh b/livecd.sh
index 8ac76506..0ac3084b 100755
--- a/livecd.sh
+++ b/livecd.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ set -eu
 # Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.                                             #
 ##########################################################################
 
-# Depends: debootstrap, rsync, python-minimal|python, procps, squashfs-tools, ltsp-server [i386], genext2fs
+# Depends: debootstrap, rsync, python-minimal|python, procps, squashfs-tools, ltsp-server [i386], e2fsprogs
 
 cleanup() {
     for mnt in ${ROOT}dev/pts ${ROOT}dev/shm ${ROOT}.dev ${ROOT}dev \
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ cleanup() {
 	umount $mnt || true
     done
 
-    [ -n "$DEV" ] && losetup -d $DEV || true
+    [ -n "$DEV" ] && umount $DEV && losetup -d $DEV || true
     grep ${ROOT} /proc/mounts && return 1 || return 0
 }
 
@@ -78,12 +78,25 @@ livefs_ext2()
 {
   # Add 10MiB extra free space for first boot + ext3 journal
   size=$(($(du -ks ${ROOT} | cut -f1) + (10240)))
+  MOUNTPOINT=$(mktemp -d)
+  DEV=$(losetup -f)
   echo "Building ext2 filesystem."
 
   # remove any stale filesystem images
   rm -f livecd.${FSS}.ext?
 
-  genext2fs -b $size -d ${ROOT} livecd.${FSS}.ext2
+  # create an empty ext2 image and loop mount it
+  dd if=/dev/zero of=livecd.${FSS}.ext2 bs=1024 count=0 seek=$size
+  mke2fs livecd.${FSS}.ext2
+  mount -o loop=${DEV} livecd.${FSS}.ext2 ${MOUNTPOINT}
+
+  # copy chroot content to image
+  cp -a ${ROOT} ${MOUNTPOINT}
+
+  # clean up
+  umount ${MOUNTPOINT}
+  rm -rf ${MOUNTPOINT}
+  losetup -d $DEV
   chmod 644 livecd.${FSS}.ext2
 }