[Buildroot] Why is extfs filesystem mandatory?

James J. Dines jdines at jdines.net
Tue Sep 7 17:42:47 UTC 2010


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On 09/07/2010 12:53 PM, Quotient Remainder wrote:
> Ar Máirt, 2010-09-07 ag 12:34 -0400, scríobh James J. Dines:
> 
>> In the menuconfig, under "Target Filesystems" I have an asterisk
>> surrounded by dashes, i.e.:
>>
>> - -*- ext2 root filesystem
> 
> Do you have ISO9660 FS enabled by any chance?
> 
> From the help for ext2:
> Selected by: BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_ISO9660 && (BR2_i386 || BR2_x86_64) && BR2_LINUX_KERNEL
> 
> 
Yes, that was the issue.  I have to admit I feel a bit foolish having
not looked more closely at the dependencies by choosong the help option,
but on the other hand I cannot imagine why this dependency exists.
Obviously one can have an iso image without having an ext2 filesystem,
or there would be no such thing as an iso image for Windows.

Or am I missing something?
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