[Buildroot] Why is extfs filesystem mandatory?

[James J. Dines]

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While trying to build a large system I keep getting an error stating
that there is no room left on the device during the generation of the
ext2 filesystem.  It is my understanding that this is due to a hard
upper limit imposed by the genext2fs utility.

This would not be an issue for me if I could simply disable said step,
however there seems to be no way to disable generation of the ext2
filesystem in the menuconfig.

Is there a reason why this cannot be disabled?


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