[BusyBox] off topic: 'device table support' for mkcramfs?

[Jonas Holmberg]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 01:29, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Thu May 02, 2002 at 11:40:06AM -0700, Geoffrey Espin wrote:
> > 
> > Sorry, this is not busybox related... (is there a proper place)
> > 
> > Playing with tuxscreen-buildroot, I stumbled the patch for
> > genext2fs which adds the cool mkfs.jffs2 option for device table
> > support.  Has anyone done a patch from mkcramfs?
> 
> not that I know of...  Adding it to genext2fs was pretty
> easy, but for jffs2 I had to largely rewrite mkfs.jffs2,

A patch for metafiles has been submitted to mkcramfs:

<http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.3/0736.html>

And here's the documentation for it:

<http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.3/0738.html>

In addition to making device-files metafiles makes it possible to set
user and group ids (recursively as well) and ignore files and
directories.

/Jonas