[OE-core] [PATCH 5/6] e2fsprogs: add populate-extfs.sh

[Darren Hart]

On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 09:13 -0400, Robert Yang wrote:
> This script is originally from Darren Hart, it will be used for creating
> the ext* filesystem from a given directory, which will replace the
> genext2fs in image_types.bbclass at the moment, we may use the mke2fs to
> replace this script again when it has the initial directory support.
> 
> Changes of the script:
> * Rename it from mkdebugfs.sh to populate-extfs.sh
> * Add a simple usage
> * Add checking for the number of the parameters
> * Add the "regular empty file" and "fifo" file type
> * Set mode, uid and gid for the file
> * Save the command lines to a file and batch run them
> * Change the error message
> * Improve the performance
> * Add the support for hardlink
> 
> [YOCTO #3848]

> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Yang <liezhi.yang at windriver.com>


Ted has offered to add this to the contrib dir for the ext2 tools. This
is fine to add to yocto, but we should contribute this back upstream as
well.


-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel