AFAIK there is no way to mount something without root credentials.

fakeroot/pseudo is intercepting some calls before they will reach the kernel, but mounting isn't a supported option - it just makes all child processes think they running under uid 0.

What you could do is try to find an option (https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/mkfs.btrfs) which does what you want directly while creating the image.

These options should go then to a variable called EXTRA_IMAGECMD.


On 28.03.20 16:30, Edson Seabra wrote:
Hi all.

I'm trying to compress a btrfs rootfs

I added  in "image_types.bbclass:IMAGE_CMD_btrfs ()" two commands:

1) mount the btrfs image after mkfs.btrfs
2) btrfs filesystem defrag + compress option

But the command mount fails:

mount: /home/edson/ng-trunk/nodegrid/tmp/work/genericx86_64-poky-linux/nodegrid/1.0-r0/deploy-nodegrid-image-complete/temp_btrfs: failed to setup loop device for /home/edson/ng-trunk/nodegrid/tmp/work/genericx86_64-poky-linux/nodegrid/1.0-r0/deploy-nodegrid-image-complete/nodegrid-genericx86-64-20200328134151.rootfs.btrfs.

I saw in image.bbclass the creation of do_image_btrfs task with flag 'fakeroot'.

====== image.bbclass ====
        task = "do_image_%s" % t.replace("-", "_").replace(".", "_")

        d.setVar(task, '\n'.join(cmds))
        d.setVarFlag(task, 'func', '1')
        d.setVarFlag(task, 'fakeroot', '1')
=======================

would the fakeroot flag allow do_image_btrfs execute commands that requires root privilege ?

If not what would be the way to execute the mount command ?

I tried "pseudo mount" but it failed same way...

Thanks in advance.

Edson.

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