[Buildroot] [PATCH] [RFC] new target: live filesystem

Samuel Martin s.martin49 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 16:08:09 UTC 2012


Hi Richard,

2012/12/17 Richard Genoud <richard.genoud at gmail.com>:
> 2012/12/17 Jeremy Rosen <jeremy.rosen at openwide.fr>:
>> Hello everybody
>>
>> there is a little bit more work to do on this patch (mainly updating a few more places in the documentation) but i'd like to have a go/no-go before I do that...
>
> I was looking for that kind of feature, I hope it will be accepted.
> For now, I use the output/target tree and those parameters in the
> /etc/exports file:
> *(rw,all_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=my_uid,anongid=my_gid)
>
> But that means that all the FS is owned by my user.

There are plenty of good reasons to not use output/target as root for
a chroot or a NFS root, as explained here:
http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#faq-why-not-use-target-as-chroot

And here, you'll find the right way to do this (so far):
http://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#_nfs_boot


Regards,

-- 
Sam



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