[yocto] [PATCH V3 0/3] New distribution definition for poky-tiny

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello all,

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Chris Larson <kergoth at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Leon Woestenberg
> <sidebranch.openembedded at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Poky-tiny defines a new distro policy for building tiny Linux images.
> >
> > Does this current image require write access at first boot?
> >
>
> That's a good question. I wonder how well we support ro rootfs today.
> It'd be nice to have a declarative mechanism to control use of a
> unioning filesystem and/or symlinking or bind mounts. poky-tiny does
> say that one of its high level policy guidelines is to have a ro
> rootfs, so if it doesn't do it today, presumably it's just a matter of
> time :)
>

Ah, I missed this line:
o Read-only or RAMFS root filesystem

However, our recipes in many ways depend on write behaviour on first boot.

When under classic OE, I always had to verify each recipe for correct
operation for ro fs's, and did so manually.

Would be nice to cover this use case better.

Regards,

Leon.
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