on image-builder and jffs2

[Martin Langhoff]

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 <reuben at laptop.org> 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, devel-request at lists.laptop.org wrote:
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:22:00 +0000
> From: Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org>
> Subject: Re: Mounting jffs2 images on F11 / kernel 2.6.31?
> To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
> Cc: OLPC Devel <devel at lists.laptop.org>
> Message-ID: <1258482120.2738.12.camel at localhost.localdomain>
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>
> 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
>
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