Re: [woody,debinst] `genext2fs', loop-dev and fakeroot?

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:30:39AM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> 
>     Ben> On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:22:10PM +1000, bug1 wrote:
>     >> Ben Collins wrote:
>     >> 
>     >> > 
>     >> > Also, I'm looking into a program on freshmeat called genext2fs that can
>     >> > create ext2 images from a directory (and using an optional device list for
>     >> > devices) as non-root. Would be very nice for woody boot-floppies, IMO.
>     >> > It's a single .c, so could go into utilities if it doesn't get packaged.
>     >> > 
>     >> 
>     >> Im a bit slow sometimes, how would it be used by boot-floppies?
> 
>     Ben> To create rescue.bin and root.bin without being root (IOW, without
>     Ben> mounting a loop filesystem, etc...). Basically you copy all the files to a
>     Ben> directory, and run the program, and it will create an image that mirrors
>     Ben> that directory (and it creates everything as root.root, no matter what the
>     Ben> perms are in the dir).
> 
>  If it could be made to work together with `fakeroot'...
> 
>  What if a loop filesystem could be set up to be `fakeroot' to a user?
>  Can a good kernel hacker make us one like that?

Why hack the kernel when this program already does what we want in
userspace?

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