Re: [yocto] Support for writable files with a read-only root file system

2014-11-28 Thread Anders Darander
* Matt Schuckmann matt.schuckm...@planar.com [141126 18:22]: Yes you are correct I want a small number of files into to reside in a writeable partition with links in the root file system to point to them. I guess I latched on to the volatiles mechanism because it seems close to meeting my

Re: [yocto] Support for writable files with a read-only root file system

2014-11-28 Thread Jens Rehsack
Am 28.11.2014 um 14:51 schrieb Anders Darander and...@chargestorm.se: * Matt Schuckmann matt.schuckm...@planar.com [141126 18:22]: Yes you are correct I want a small number of files into to reside in a writeable partition with links in the root file system to point to them. I guess I latched

Re: [yocto] Support for writable files with a read-only root file system

2014-11-26 Thread Mike Looijmans
The one-size-fits-all solution is to use an unionfs, and a writable part in RAM or mounted elsewhere, e.g. in flash (typically a tiny jffs2 partition). It requires quite some scripting to get right, you have to boot the system and then mount the overlay, the unionfs to join it with the

Re: [yocto] Support for writable files with a read-only root file system

2014-11-26 Thread Jim Rafert
] Support for writable files with a read-only root file system The one-size-fits-all solution is to use an unionfs, and a writable part in RAM or mounted elsewhere, e.g. in flash (typically a tiny jffs2 partition). It requires quite some scripting to get right, you have to boot the system

Re: [yocto] Support for writable files with a read-only root file system

2014-11-26 Thread Matt Schuckmann
...@topic.nl] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 7:38 AM To: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [yocto] Support for writable files with a read-only root file system The one-size-fits-all solution is to use an unionfs, and a writable part in RAM or mounted elsewhere, e.g. in flash (typically a tiny

[yocto] Support for writable files with a read-only root file system

2014-11-25 Thread Matt Schuckmann
I've been investigating the support for read only root file systems and trying to suss out how to support persistent writeable files in my image where the root file system is read only, this seems like a very common thing for an embedded Linux system to need but I'm not seeing the support for