[Buildroot] Read only rootfs with writable (aufs) overlay

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Mon Feb 19 21:46:28 UTC 2018


>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Hildebrand <alexander.hildebrand at googlemail.com> writes:

 > Hi there,
 > Does anyone of you have experience with a rootfs with a writable (aufs) overlay?
 > I managed to compile aufs and mount a folder combining the read only
 > rootfs with a read write data overlay. How to switch the rootfs to
 > this mount point? Tried to move the mount point to this folder in the
 > inittab, but this fails with "Too many levels of symbolic links"

I don't have any specific experience with aufs (any specific reasons to
not use the in-kernel overlayfs instead), but you would normally need to
setup the overlay in an initramfs and then switch_root to it before
executing init.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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