From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Squashfs boot
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:18:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130123171848.370ef451@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51000A62.9090309@petroprogram.com>
Dear Stefan Fr?berg,
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:05:54 +0200, Stefan Fr?berg wrote:
> No.
> What I meant was, that if he is going to make it *without* buildroot
> (that is, if he can't get buildroot generated squashfs root to boot).
> *Then* he has to make his own init stuff to mount those /tmp
> and /var/log.
Ok. But then if Buildroot has a bug, let's fix the bug instead of
trying to work-around it, no?
> And my own solution is overly complex because I want the ability to
> write to squashfs, even if just temporarily.
> That's why I use initramfs + squashfs + unionfs
Indeed. You could still boot the root filesystem from squashfs, and
then mount a tmpfs and do the unionfs thing. There's no real need to
split usr/ in a squashfs in order to achieve this, I think.
Best regards,
Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
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2013-01-22 1:25 ` [Buildroot] Squashfs boot Stephen Turner
2013-01-22 12:41 ` Stefan Fröberg
[not found] ` <CAN_xxrVD=Tq=ekME-jdHKRzyUwXk0PMocQX9mrxxcgjZQ8SYqA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-22 17:49 ` Stefan Fröberg
[not found] ` <CAN_xxrXZWmhECAH1JfgvHk+U_wksdZ0ZyxpcaSea8KsEYy04mw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-22 19:39 ` Stefan Fröberg
2013-01-22 20:20 ` Peter Korsgaard
2013-01-23 15:57 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-01-23 16:05 ` Stefan Fröberg
2013-01-23 16:18 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-01-23 16:31 ` Stefan Fröberg
2013-01-24 17:42 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-01-24 19:29 ` Stephen Turner
2013-01-24 22:40 ` Stefan Fröberg
[not found] ` <CAN_xxrXsvvupyo61cqZhCR4JyLwtCsm1NRAh9JCy_uVHRqGO4A@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-25 21:55 ` Stefan Fröberg
2013-01-26 22:38 ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2013-01-26 23:04 ` Stefan Fröberg
2013-01-27 7:13 ` Stephen Turner
2013-01-24 22:42 ` Stefan Fröberg
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