linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: do not change root dir ownership

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Message-ID: <519213CB.4050400@windriver.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 May 2013 18:36:59 +0800
From:	Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@...driver.com>
To:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	<linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: do not change root dir ownership



On 05/14/2013 07:09 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
>
>
> On 05/13/2013 02:06 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:12:27PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> nifty.  we already have to mount the fs to populate it, so putting a chown in
>>> there isn't a big deal in the current setup.
>>>
>>> now if only e2fsprogs would integrate the `genext2fs` project :).
>>
>> Darren Hart created a shell script which uses debugfs to do all of the
>> dirty work, called populate-extfs.sh which I believe Linaro and the
>> Yocto project is using instead of genext2fs.
>>
>> I'm not entirely sure this the latest version, but so you can get a
>> flavor of the script, see:
>>
>> http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/45415/
>>
>> Darren, if you think the script is pretty stable, I'd be happy to drop
>> the latest version of it into the contrib directory of e2fsprogs.
>
> Let me sync with Robert (on Cc) who has been doing the integration to
> see what he thinks about that.
>

Hi Darren, thanks for the info, the recent patches are here:

http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/49409/
http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/49413/
http://patches.openembedded.org/patch/49415/

It seem that they are still not stable enough from the replying of the oe-core
mailing list, and I'm working it.

// Robert

> We consider the script to be a temporary mechanism. Now that the symlink
> support has been added to debugfs, we are working to validate that
> everything works via the script. Once complete, the second stage of this
> effort is to move some of the logic from debugfs into libe2fs and make
> it available to mke2fs as well as debugfs. Then we would want to add the
> -i (initial dir) argument I had proposed originally to be able to format
> and populate an image in a single step.
>
> I provide that context in case it impacts Mike's plans. Always good to
> know what others are planning :-)
>
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