From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.ml.walleij@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: building Rootfs
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:21:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080709062139.1510424304@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:53:46 +0200." <63386a3d0807081653t5e19cae2vd35c03de4bec7fa8@mail.gmail.com>
In message <63386a3d0807081653t5e19cae2vd35c03de4bec7fa8@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> >> 3. Getting files into the filesystem when the development
> >> system does not allow root access.
>
> > 3. is a non-issue for most common file systems.
>
> The only one thing I ever ran into trouble with was device nodes,
No, this is not a problem.
> these cannot be reproduced any way, not even with fakeroot
Most tools support a "device table", i. e. a plain text file
describing needed device nodes, owners, permissions etc., so no root
permissins are needed.
For details please see
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemOnARamdisk
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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2008-07-07 20:34 ` building Rootfs Linus Walleij
2008-07-07 21:21 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-09 0:14 ` Linus Walleij
2008-07-09 7:06 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-07 23:24 ` Haller, John H (John)
2008-07-08 6:54 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-08 14:00 ` Wolfgang Denk
2008-07-08 23:53 ` Linus Walleij
2008-07-09 0:52 ` David VomLehn
2008-07-09 7:10 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-09 6:21 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2008-07-09 6:43 ` Robert Schwebel
2008-07-09 7:22 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-07-09 8:22 ` Marek Skuczynski
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