Re: Contents of non-rootfs partitions

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

On Thu, 2016-11-24 at 07:15 +0100, Ulrich Ölmann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 04:56:56PM +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > Excluding only the directory content but not the actual directory is
> > indeed a good point. I'm a bit undecided. When excluding only the
> > directory content, there's no way of building a rootfs without that
> > mount point, if that's desired. OTOH, when excluding also the directory,
> > the data would have to be staged under a different path in the rootfs
> > and the mount point would have to be a separate, empty directory.
> > 
> > I'm leaning towards excluding the directory content and keeping the
> > directory.
> 
> what about having both possibilities by leaning against the syntax that rsync
> uses to specify if a whole source directory or only it's contents shall be
> synced to some destination site (see [1])?

I like that idea.

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