diff --git a/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/swift.conf b/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/swift.conf
index 3915e2b..4c0abb5 100644
--- a/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/swift.conf
+++ b/meta-witherspoon/conf/machine/swift.conf
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require conf/machine/witherspoon.conf
 
-IMAGE_FSTYPES += "ext4"
+IMAGE_FSTYPES += "ext4 mmc-ext4-tar"
 
 KERNEL_DEVICETREE = "${KMACHINE}-bmc-opp-${MACHINE}.dtb"