Re: [PATCH V5 00/10] Make read-only rootfs work with live images

[ChenQi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>]

On 08/17/2013 01:43 AM, Saul Wold wrote:
> On 08/07/2013 11:15 PM, Qi.Chen@windriver.com wrote:
>> From: Chen Qi <Qi.Chen@windriver.com>
>>
>> Changes from V4:
>> 1. Fix the error of 'read -f' in populate-volatile.sh. The '-f' 
>> should should not be there.
>> 2. Fix the error of missing colon in populate-volatile.sh.
>>
>> Changes from V3:
>> 1. Take hidden directories and files into consideration when copying 
>> before bind mounting.
>> 2. Use 'cp -a' in populate-volatile.sh to avoid potential problems
>>
>> Change from V2:
>> 1. modify the irda init script so that it doesn't necessarily need to 
>> write to /etc/sysconfig/irda
>> 2. drop the lighttpd patch
>> 3. modify the logic for openssh in case of a read-only rootfs
>>
>> Change from V1:
>> 1. Disable the generating of ssh keys at rootfs time
>> 2. Add a mechanism to read-only-rootfs-hook.sh to check whether a 
>> directory is on a read-only partition.
>> 3. Fix a new bug#4937 
>> (https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4937)
>>
>> The following changes since commit 
>> f63e7f4323368c0d6fe7a1d44393a7e15652d4f2:
>>
>>    subversion: Add patch to use neon 0.30 (2013-08-07 07:43:47 +0100)
>>
>> are available in the git repository at:
>>
>>    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib 
>> ChenQi/read-only-rootfs-in-live-images
>> http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=ChenQi/read-only-rootfs-in-live-images
>>
>> Chen Qi (10):
>>    init-live.sh: make $ROOT_MOUNT/media writable when necessary
>>    use a uiform way to determine whether rootfs is read-only
>
> Qi,
>
> Richard noted in the Consolidated Pull that he did not take this patch 
> along with the initscripts patch due to too many processes being 
> spawned at boot time, can you find a better way to handle this?
>
> Sau!
>
Yes.

I'll try to come up with a better solution.

Best Regards,
Chen Qi

>>    udev: remove implicit dependency on initscripts
>>    populate-volatile.sh: use $ROOT_DIR/var/volatile/tmp as TMPDIR
>>    populate-volatile.sh: don't spawn background process at rootfs time
>>    runqemu-internal: fix to start X correctly in live images
>>    initscripts: use a uniform way to handle directories in read-only
>>      rootfs
>>    populate-volatile.sh: use 'cp -a' to avoid potential problem
>>    irda-utils: fix for read-only rootfs
>>    openssh: fix for read-only rootfs
>>
>>   meta/classes/image.bbclass                         |   16 +++++--
>>   .../irda-utils/irda-utils-0.9.18/init              |   13 +-----
>>   .../openssh/openssh-6.2p2/init                     |   22 ++++++---
>>   meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_6.2p2.bb |    9 +++-
>>   meta/recipes-core/initrdscripts/files/init-live.sh |    2 +
>>   .../initscripts/initscripts-1.0/functions          |   14 ++++++
>>   .../initscripts-1.0/populate-volatile.sh           |   15 ++++--
>>   .../initscripts-1.0/read-only-rootfs-hook.sh       |   48 
>> ++++++++++++++++++--
>>   meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb   |    5 ++
>>   meta/recipes-core/sysvinit/sysvinit/rcS-default    |    4 --
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/init                   |   21 +++++++--
>>   meta/recipes-core/udev/udev/udev-cache             |    5 ++
>>   .../0001-add-is_rootfs_readonly-to-functions.patch |   37 
>> +++++++++++++++
>>   meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbinitscripts_9.48.bb   |    1 +
>>   scripts/runqemu-internal                           |    2 +-
>>   15 files changed, 172 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 
>> meta/recipes-extended/lsb/lsbinitscripts/0001-add-is_rootfs_readonly-to-functions.patch
>>
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