[Buildroot] [RFC] How to handle targets that need more than one file system to boot?

[Yann E. MORIN]

Willy, All,

On Thursday 03 January 2013 Willy Lambert wrote:
> 2013/1/3 Steve Calfee <stevecalfee at gmail.com>:
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> > Maybe we are talking about different things. I think there is a config
> > option in buildroot that allows you to build multiple output
> > filesystems, I believe I have created ext4 and a tar.gz as outputs. I
> > think there are also various flash file systems you can create.
> 
> I'm curious to know how you do ext4 from BR. I did not found that, and
> ASAIK, there is no documentation about outputs (and it's a real pain
> for new comers like me)

Indeed, not sure about ext4. But it's doable for ext3:
  - first create an ext2 filesystem with genext2fs
  - then add the ext3 feature with something like tune2fs -j

As for ext4, it is probably not possible, as it is really different from
an ext2/3 filesystem.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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