Hello Charles, > I have verified a new backup of initrd with 'normal' bering produces the > working version of initrd (1376 inodes). > > Could someone running Bering-uClibc test this using the following procedure: > > - Backup initrd.lrp on a 'live' Bering-uClibc system > - Copy initrd.lrp to a handy 'conventional' linux system > - Uncompress initrd.lrp: > gzip - <initrd.lrp >initrd > - Turn initrd into a loop device: > losetup /dev/loop0 initrd > - Check filesystem stats: > fsck.minix -sf /dev/loop0 > - Clean up (remove loop device) > losetup -d /dev/loop0 > Result: Forcing filesystem check on /dev/loop0. 1376 inodes 4096 blocks Firstdatazone=47 (47) Zonesize=1024 Maxsize=268966912 Filesystem state=1 namelen=30
So it looks like busybox mkfs.minix behaves differently than the "real" one. > Note that there is a very simple way to split the root.dev.mk file into > two parts: by device type. Only the block devices are required to mount > LEAFCFG (unless it's suddenly become possible to mount filesystems from > character devices). Even better, it looks like only about 1/3 of the > files in /dev are block devices: > > Files in /dev by type (running Bering-1.2 system): > b: 127 > c: 277 > l: 9 > p: 1 > s: 1 > d: 3 > f: 0 > > I suggest splitting the current root.dev.mk file into two files: one for > block devices (used by /linuxrc prior to making the final root tempfs > filesystem) and one containing everything else. > I will look into that and also make sure that future versions of Bering-uClibc have an increased inode size. The only remaining issue is the strange behaviour of the FILESYSTEMS variable.... Eric Spakman ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
