From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: building Rootfs Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:21:39 +0200 Message-ID: <20080709062139.1510424304@gemini.denx.de> References: <63386a3d0807081653t5e19cae2vd35c03de4bec7fa8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:53:46 +0200." <63386a3d0807081653t5e19cae2vd35c03de4bec7fa8@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linus Walleij Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org 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 -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de Beware of the Turing Tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.