[Buildroot] Ext4 rootfs option

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Feb 8 22:15:07 UTC 2012


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 Arnout>  I currently use genext2fs, followed by tune2fs to add the
 Arnout> journal and e2fsck to fix the incorrect FS version number.  But
 Arnout> it's extremely inefficient, especially since genext2fs first
 Arnout> builds the filesystem in memory before committing to the output
 Arnout> image.  Not good when you want to create a 500GB partition :-)

Wow, you're using Buildroot for systems with 500GB rootfs? Must be those
binary video codecs / GPU drivers you were talking about ;)

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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