[Buildroot] [PATCH] docs/manual: document filesystems

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sun Jun 10 15:07:59 UTC 2018


Carlos, All,

On 2018-06-10 10:38 -0300, Carlos Santos spake thusly:
> > From: "Yann Morin" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> >> Genarating filesystem images do not modify the
> >> contents of the global $(TARGET_DIR) and user-provided rootfs extensions
> >> must not do this.
[--SNIP--]
> > Why do you insist on modifying the global target/ directory from your
> > filesystem? If you do that, and build two or more filesystems [*], they
> > might each try to modify target/ is incompatible ways, and this is not
> > even safe, concurrency-wise (e.g. ony may try to archive the content of
> > /var while another is doing a rm -rf on it.)
> 
> I never intended to modify the global $(TARGET_DIR).

Sorry, I mis-interpreted your comment above, as "user-provided rootfs []
must not do this" to which I appended in my head "but that is exactly
what I want to do in my case."

I'm sorry, I should be more careful in my interpretations in the future.

So, I'll take that as a hint to further improve the section that
explains how filesystems are generated, to more carefully describe and
explain the sequence.

Thanks again for the feedback! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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