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[Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 June 2014 20:26, Jani Monoses <jani.monoses@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Due to it being called system.img when it was actually flashed to the
> Android system partition, the Ubuntu root filesystem image residing under
> /data/system.img can be easily confused with the Android system.img that is
> under /var/lib/lxc/android/system.img _inside_ the Ubuntu system.img.
>
> How about moving away and calling the Ubuntu image ubuntu.img ?
> Here's a patch to the system-image-upgrader script
>
> https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/#/c/252/
>
> and one to the initramfs script
>
> https://code.launchpad.net/~jani/ubuntu/utopic/initramfs-tools-ubuntu-touch/image-name/+merge/222091
>
> They both preserve working with system.img by hardlinking the two names to
> the same file, but prefer ubuntu.img when creating a new image or mounting
> one.
>
> thoughts?
> Jani

The other ongoing plan is to get rid of loop-mounting image files, and
instead have them on separate partitions.
Such that "ubuntu.img" is actually just a normal, e.g. GPT partition
with a label UBUNTU, and /var/lib/lxc/android/system.img is also a
normal partition.
I do agree that mounting a system.img from a system.img file can get
rather confusing, very fast. And it did give me a very "Huh?!" moment
first time I've discovered this for myself.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.