From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:33:41 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] Add a filesystem option so a device can be booted over NFS. In-Reply-To: <1405430476-29925-1-git-send-email-sagaert.johan@skynet.be> References: <1405430476-29925-1-git-send-email-sagaert.johan@skynet.be> Message-ID: <20140715213341.51a462ee@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Sagaert Johan, On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 15:21:16 +0200, Sagaert Johan wrote: > > This options allows specifying a directory where the target rootfs is > copied to so it can be used to boot a device over NFS. > > Signed-off-by: Sagaert Johan How to boot from NFS is explained at http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#_nfs_boot, and the solution you propose requires root privileges to extract the tarball image, which is not acceptable as Buildroot doesn't run as root. Therefore, I'll have to mark your patch as Rejected in our patch tracking system. Do not hesitate to let us know if you disagree and see a better way of doing things. Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com