Hey, I can imagine the need to update your target rootfs over the network, especially if it's a lot of trouble to reconnect your root drive.
A commonly used setup, I think, is doing a network boot using NFS to let the target mount it's rootfs (which resides on your development host). This way the dev host can always access the target rootfs directly. Another option that I'm considering to use, is putting two target rootfs's on the target's disk. One of those is a minimal rootfs running only ssh an rsync (for example) that can be used to update the second root fs (ie, boot the first rootfs to update the second, then reboot in to the second rootfs). That way you can emerge to some local copy of the target rootfs on your dev host and rsync it to the target when you are done. Gr. Matthijs
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