Re: [yocto] Read-only file system with persistent storage

2015-07-23 Thread Lukas Böhm
: [yocto] Read-only file system with persistent storage I'd like to set up a system with a read-only root file system along with some persistent read-write storage. What are the [best] options in Poky/Yocto for this? Is there any support for some type of overlay file system? Thanks for any ideas

Re: [yocto] Read-only file system with persistent storage

2015-07-21 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Dear Mike Looijmans, On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 08:07:56 +0200, Mike Looijmans wrote: with NAND, you'd have to use a fault-tolerant filesystem to store the rootfs. Dunno if it's possible to store a squashfs as a volume into ubi. It is. See ubiblock,

Re: [yocto] Read-only file system with persistent storage

2015-07-21 Thread Matt Schuckmann
[mailto:yocto- boun...@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Gary Thomas Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 4:37 AM To: Yocto Project Subject: [yocto] Read-only file system with persistent storage I'd like to set up a system with a read-only root file system along with some persistent read-write storage

Re: [yocto] Read-only file system with persistent storage

2015-07-20 Thread Mike Looijmans
On 16-07-15 13:36, Gary Thomas wrote: I'd like to set up a system with a read-only root file system along with some persistent read-write storage. What are the [best] options in Poky/Yocto for this? Is there any support for some type of overlay file system? Thanks for any ideas/pointers

Re: [yocto] Read-only file system with persistent storage

2015-07-17 Thread Nikolay Dimitrov
Hi Gary, On 07/16/2015 02:36 PM, Gary Thomas wrote: I'd like to set up a system with a read-only root file system along with some persistent read-write storage. What are the [best] options in Poky/Yocto for this? Is there any support for some type of overlay file system? Thanks for any

[yocto] Read-only file system with persistent storage

2015-07-16 Thread Gary Thomas
I'd like to set up a system with a read-only root file system along with some persistent read-write storage. What are the [best] options in Poky/Yocto for this? Is there any support for some type of overlay file system? Thanks for any ideas/pointers --

Re: [yocto] Read-only file system with persistent storage

2015-07-16 Thread Daniel.
Hi Gary, I'm interested in that too. In my case I want to have a reset-to-factory-defaults-button on my device. The idea was use an readonly filesystem and, on top of it, a read-write filesystem. All modifications goes to top-half, once the RTFD button is pressed the top-half is formated and the