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On 2014-05-01 05:06, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> With both mkimg and makefs in the tree now, there should be almost no
> need for md devices for image generation anymore.
> -Nathan


That would only work for devices that don't need FAT filesystems.


Also, if you want to build image root-less, you need to figure out how
to get correct file permissions into your image file. Surely you can get
those into file, just you can't do it directly on filesystem.