From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael S. Zick Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:03:15 -0600 Subject: [Buildroot] jffs2 multiple partition In-Reply-To: References: <20091126161313.57866352@surf> Message-ID: <200911261103.17925.minimod@morethan.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Thu November 26 2009, Jonathan dumaresq wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > -----Message d'origine----- > De?: buildroot-bounces at busybox.net [mailto:buildroot-bounces at busybox.net] De > la part de Thomas Petazzoni > Envoy??: 26 novembre 2009 10:13 > ??: buildroot at busybox.net > Objet?: Re: [Buildroot] jffs2 multiple partition > > Same opinion here. The feature ? put /usr in one filesystem and the rest > in another filesystem ? is very, very specific. Unless we find a way to > make it more generally useful, I don't think this belongs to Buildroot. > > Yes I know That this is very specific. To be honest, this is not funny at > all. But with the patch I just send, You can cherry pick some directory and > fill the jffs2_partition.txt file ans list those directory (or mount point) > in there. > > We could imagine that the user can give a text file saying which > file/directory should go in which filesystem, so that parts could be > put into a read-only filesystem and other parts into a read/write > filesystem. But I'm not sure how this would work. > > This can be a realy fun !!! > > Thomas Perhaps like a "makedev table"? Used as an "install command" target re-director? Not that much different than using exclude-from-file and include-from-file tar command options to reorganize the output tarball in user scripting. Sounds like re-inventing an old, well known, wheel. Hmm... Doesn't the build system already have an option to run things through a user provided script? Mike