It won't lose anything. We create the .contents file and tarball from the same "build" directory we generate the jffs2.
Mounting a valid jffs2 image RO works well -- editing it "in place" is dodgy and oopsed on me abundandly. So we mount it just to extract the files. cheers, m On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Reuben K. Caron <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin, > By modifying the jffs2 images directly won't we lose the customized tarball > and contents file that the XS uses to provide OS updates to XOs? > DSD has a good how to here that illustrates what I mean: > http://wiki.paraguayeduca.org/index.php/Construir_OS > Reuben > On Nov 17, 2009, at 3:54 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:22:00 +0000 > From: Daniel Drake <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Mounting jffs2 images on F11 / kernel 2.6.31? > To: Martin Langhoff <[email protected]> > Cc: OLPC Devel <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 19:11 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > Has this been seen before? > > Background: Turns out that using block2mtd, a loop device and some > > elbow grease, it is reasonably easy to mount jffs2 images on a normal > > linux host. (This is helping me simplify image-builder...) > > I saw this before while working with block2mtd on another project and > was basically told not to use it. > > Daniel > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
