[Squashfs-devel] Appending without renaming directories

[Jonathan H. <jon...@nm...>]

I am attempting to merge some files into an existing squashfs image.
The existing image contains a partial root filesystem, so has
directories like /etc, /lib, and so on.  The files I am attempting to
merge into the existing image are also housed in such directories,
although none of the files are actually duplicates.  For
instance, /etc/foo may exist in the image, and I'm attempging to
append /etc/bar.

The problem is that mksquashfs is seen that /etc already exists, so
merges the new /etc/* as /etc_1.  The end result is that I have a
squashfs filesystem with /etc/foo and /etc_1/bar, instead of /etc/foo
and /etc/bar; this is somewhat worthless :)

Is there any way around this problem? Is there a patch that allows for
this sort of thing, or am I trying to do something that's funamentally
impossible?

Thanks!

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Jonathan


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