In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> There are three issues in building an embedded cross-filesystem:
> 1. Identification of the files to put into the filesystem.
> 2. Stripping or extracting debug symbols from the filesystem.
> 3. Getting files into the filesystem when the development
> system does not allow root access.

3. is a non-issue for most common file systems.

> The third item is easy for an initramfs, but not well handled
> by existing tools for an initrd (although I haven't looked
> recently). One possibility is to modify a mkfs program, such

genext2fs has been around for a long, long time.

And there are similar tools for other file system types  like  cramfs
or jffs2 ...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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