From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Rich Bayliss <richbayliss@gmail.com>
Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [meta-raspberrypi] Read-Only RootFS is not read only
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 23:35:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1680213.YPjXP0RsTC@helios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHLvMfZwQj6B9uzZC9wPbSqr+n8609FA90tAy7jPHp9mqDjPfw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sunday 04 August 2013 01:27:01 Rich Bayliss wrote:
> On 2 August 2013 13:47, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 July 2013 11:43:43 Rich Bayliss wrote:
> >> I am trying to build for Raspberry Pi including "read-only-rootfs" in
> >> my image features. My aim is to have my SD Card read-only and at some
> >> point add a read-write overlay to certain directories. This should
> >> enable my system to boot fresh each time, and have some persistent
> >> storage for user files etc.
> >>
> >> However, after building my image I can SSH into the system and issue
> >> "touch test" to create a file in my home directory, then after a
> >> reboot it is still there. That isn't very read-only :)
> >>
> >> Am I missing something, or is this working incorrectly?
> >
> > It sounds like it's working incorrectly. Since meta-raspberrypi constructs
> > the SD card image using its own custom class I wonder if it has anything
> > to do with that. Andrei, do you know anything about this?
> >
> > BTW, are you using sysvinit or systemd in this image?
>
> I am using the standard sysvinit/systemd - I haven't specified either,
> so whichever is default.
Except the default depends upon what DISTRO you are using. Which DISTRO are
you using - "poky" or something else?
Cheers,
Paul
--
Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-04 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-30 10:43 [meta-raspberrypi] Read-Only RootFS is not read only Rich Bayliss
2013-08-02 12:47 ` Paul Eggleton
2013-08-04 0:27 ` Rich Bayliss
2013-08-04 22:35 ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
2013-08-04 23:51 ` Rich Bayliss
2013-08-05 10:12 ` Andrei Gherzan
2013-08-21 15:16 ` Andrei Gherzan
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