[Buildroot] buildroot with SquashFS root file system

Emmanuel BOUAZIZ ebouaziz at neotion.com
Thu Dec 8 17:34:02 UTC 2011



On 12/08/2011 03:27 PM, Michael S. Zick wrote:

> You do not have to put your entire run-time file system in the initramfs,
> only what you need to establish the full run-time file system.
> I.E: Your full run-time file system can remain as a squashfs file.
> You just have to provide the "init" scripting to get it loaded and
> mounted while in the early user space of the initramfs.
> 
> See: EarlyUserSpace in the kernel documentation tree;
> and maybe look at how some "LiveCD" systems handle the setup.

I'll take a look at that, thank you!

-- 
Emmanuel


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