From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Naumann Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:28:53 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/5] fs/custom: generate complete, partition-based device images In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53454B15.7060409@andin.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi Yann, > From: "Yann E. MORIN" > > Contrary to the existing fs/ schemes, which each generate only a single > filesystem image for the root filesystem, this new scheme allows the > user to generate more complex images. if found this an interesting idea, but apparently it has not found its way into master yet. What is the current state? > > The basis behind this is a .ini-like description of the layout of the > final target storage: > - the list of device(s) > - per-device, the list of partition(s) > - per-partition, the content > > It is possible to create MBR- or GPT-based partitoining schemes. Adding > new ones should be relatively easy (but would need adequate host tools). > > For now, the only content possible for partitions is a filesystem. It > should be pretty easy to add new types (eg. un-formated, or raw blob). > > Also, only two filesystems are supported: ext{2,3,4} and vfat. Adding > more will be relatively easy, provided we have the necessary host > packages to deal with those filesystems. However, I'not sure if it actually is what I am looking for. Which is dividing the target content into multiple partitions, which are then mounted into the rootfs (like /data, /etc/somespecialconfig, /var/log).? Are there other ways to do that? cheers, Andi