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From: ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V8 2/6] image.bbclass: add a hook funtion to support readonly rootfs
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:07:20 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FF7E18.4020803@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50FED7A0.1060200@topic.nl>

On 01/23/2013 02:17 AM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> On 01/22/2013 07:36 AM, Qi.Chen@windriver.com wrote:
>> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
>>
>> read_only_rootfs_hook: this funtion is invoked only if 
>> 'read-only-rootfs'
>> is in IMAGE_FEATURES. It tweaks some basic files and makes populate-
>> volatile.sh script run at rootfs time.
>
> To me, it seems running populate-volatile at rootfs is a good thing 
> for writable rootfs as well, it reduces the writing at first boot. Why 
> not ALWAYS do this?
>
Hi Mike,

The reason I didn't make it *always* run at rootfs is that it's not 
*necessary*.
Besides, I want to encapsulate all all necessary tweaks at rootfs time 
into one function -- read-only-rootfs-hook.
In this way, I can ensure that it doesn't mess up with other components.

Thanks,
Chen Qi



  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-23  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-22  6:36 [PATCH V8 0/6] read-only rootfs support Qi.Chen
2013-01-22  6:36 ` [PATCH V8 1/6] sysvinit: add ROOTFS_READ_ONLY variable to rcS-default Qi.Chen
2013-01-22  6:36 ` [PATCH V8 2/6] image.bbclass: add a hook funtion to support readonly rootfs Qi.Chen
2013-01-22 18:17   ` Mike Looijmans
2013-01-23  6:07     ` ChenQi [this message]
2013-01-22  6:36 ` [PATCH V8 3/6] core-image.bbclass: support read-only rootfs Qi.Chen
2013-01-22  6:36 ` [PATCH V8 4/6] initscripts: " Qi.Chen
2013-01-22  6:36 ` [PATCH V8 5/6] volatile-conf-minimal: add recipe Qi.Chen
2013-01-22 22:57   ` Saul Wold
2013-01-23  3:24     ` ChenQi
2013-01-23  4:20       ` Saul Wold
2013-01-23  4:52         ` ChenQi
2013-01-22  6:36 ` [PATCH V8 6/6] volatile-conf-sato: " Qi.Chen

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