One solution I've seen for this kind of problem is to have a separate 'factory' filesystem which is mounted read/write during factory provisioning, but then is mounted read-only during normal operation. This is also a good place to store information such as camera calibration data.
On Apr 16, 9:21 am, Garimella Srinivasu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi gsksten, > > Thank you for your reply.. > > My requirement as below.. > > At the time of verry first boot, factory people should select branding of > my device(we are supporting multiple types of branding) and based on this > selection second time onwords device will boot with respective > Brands(different Brands have different UI look for applications and boot > animations). > > So we want to create a file at the time of very first boot(Brand selection) > in File system either in main root or mounted file system. > > Even i am not able to mount file system as RW through android application... > > Hope you understood my requirement ..Please guide me in right path.. > > Thanks & REgards > Garimella Srinivasu > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Glenn Kasten <[email protected]> wrote: > > The root file system / is typically a small read-only RAM filesystem > > which is just used as a place to mount the other filesystems such as / > > system and /data, to hold special filesystems like /proc and /sys, and > > to store the init executable and startup scripts such as init.rc. It's > > not intended or suitable for application use. Can you explain the use > > case that's driving this requirement? > > > On Apr 13, 10:10 am, Garimella Srinivasu > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am working in the tablet development and need to provide File System > > ROOT > > > access to android applications. As per my requirement i should be able to > > > create a file in root file system with the same file user group. > > > > Please suggest how to achieve this... > > > > Thanks in advance.. > > > > Thanks & Regards > > > Garimella Srinivasu > > > -- > > unsubscribe: [email protected] > > website:http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
