In message <63386a3d0807081653t5e19cae2vd35c03de4bec7fa8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > >> 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 only one thing I ever ran into trouble with was device nodes, No, this is not a problem. > these cannot be reproduced any way, not even with fakeroot Most tools support a "device table", i. e. a plain text file describing needed device nodes, owners, permissions etc., so no root permissins are needed. For details please see http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemOnARamdisk Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx Beware of the Turing Tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html