[meta-ti] [PATCH v2 1/3] sdcard_image: rewrote to avoid using loopback and mount/unmount

[William Mills]

On 12/05/2011 06:30 AM, Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Op 29 nov. 2011, om 18:51 heeft Otavio Salvador het volgende geschreven:
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>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 15:48, Koen Kooi<koen at dominion.thruhere.net>  wrote:
>> mkfs.vfat keeps segfaulting at different points, I'll try to find out why.
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>> It works fine here.
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>> Maybe a change in your layer?
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> I did some more tests (MACHINE=beaglebone bitbake cloud9-image) and with your patches mkfs.vfat segfaults, without the patches it works. I don't know why that is.
> I do want to get rid of the loopdevices, so if other people on this list can test these patches as well...
>

Do you guys know if a similar method will be available for non-extN 
file-systems?  btrfs is the most likely case to come up first.

If the answer is no, could we keep both methods and just default to the 
no-loop method?