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From: "Evgeny A. Marchenko" <xengine@mail.ru>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question: Build btrfs filesystem from specific directory.
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 06:33:11 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006120633.12043.xengine@mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimbW5pNGsFxRZYRRjY0Ke-Wyb4aaBkUZgilVMlR@mail.gmail.com>

> I'm founding the solution to build btrfs filesystem image from
> specific directory.
> it's common concept at mobile build environment.
> e.g., ubifs and cramfs support this feature.
> 
> In case of ubifs
> -r, -d, --root=DIR       build file system from directory DIR
> In case of cramfs
> dirname    root of the filesystem to be compressed
> 
> But btrfs doesn't support it.
Maybe because btrfs is not a compressed read-only filesystem

> So does it have any plan to support this feature at btrfs?
You can create file-backed loop device, mount it and copy the directory 
contents there. Than unmount the loop and voila - you have btrfs image

Regards, Evgeny Marchenko

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-12  2:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-12  2:20 Question: Build btrfs filesystem from specific directory Kyungmin Park
2010-06-12  2:33 ` Evgeny A. Marchenko [this message]
2010-06-12  4:47   ` Kyungmin Park

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