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From: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:41:51 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] /dev nodes files
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On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 08:53:46PM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>  Daniel> After each build, the ixnodes in project_build_arm/uclibc/root/dev are
>  Daniel> regular files rather than inodes, which prevents users from exporting
>  Daniel> that directory directly as NFS root. Most people run custom scripts to
>  Daniel> fix that, but I wonder whether there is any change to get that fixed in
>  Daniel> BR2 directly.
> 
> Ehh, that's on purpose (E.G. so you don't need root permissions to
> build). Just select the tarball target and extract it on your nfs
> server.
> 
>  Daniel> Any oppinion about such an approach?
> 
> What would this buy us that the tarball target doesn't give?

Ok, understood. Thanks :)

Daniel