[Buildroot] Ext4 rootfs option

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On Wednesday 08 February 2012 23:15:07 Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  Arnout>  I currently use genext2fs, followed by tune2fs to add the
>  Arnout> journal and e2fsck to fix the incorrect FS version number.  But
>  Arnout> it's extremely inefficient, especially since genext2fs first
>  Arnout> builds the filesystem in memory before committing to the output
>  Arnout> image.  Not good when you want to create a 500GB partition :-)
> 
> Wow, you're using Buildroot for systems with 500GB rootfs? Must be those
> binary video codecs / GPU drivers you were talking about ;)

 Actually, no.  I wrote the script so it was possible to write the image to
a block device, and it would determine the required fs size automatically.  
And then some idiot had the idea of plugging in a USB harddisk instead of 
the normal 1GB compactflash card...  Serves me right for trying to be too
generic.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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