diff --git a/nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd-image.nix b/nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd-image.nix
index 7a2e271c4dde..c43f1642cdec 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd-image.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/installer/sd-card/sd-image.nix
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 with lib;
 
 let
-  rootfsImage = pkgs.callPackage ../../../lib/make-ext4-fs.nix (
+  rootfsImage = pkgs.callPackage config.sdImage.rootFilesystemCreator (
     {
       inherit (config.sdImage) storePaths;
       compressImage = config.sdImage.compressImage;
@@ -128,6 +128,20 @@ in
       '';
     };
 
+    rootFilesystemCreator = mkOption {
+      type = types.oneOf [
+        types.package
+        types.path
+      ];
+      default = ../../../lib/make-ext4-fs.nix;
+      example = ''
+        nixpkgs/nixos/lib/make-btrfs-fs.nix
+      '';
+      description = ''
+        The filesystem creator used for the root partition.
+      '';
+    };
+
     firmwareSize = mkOption {
       type = types.int;
       # As of 2019-08-18 the Raspberry pi firmware + u-boot takes ~18MiB