[Buildroot] [RFC PATCH 1/2] support/scripts/genimage.sh: support creating a bmap image

[Quentin Schulz]

Hi Gero,

On 4/23/24 13:33, Gero Schwäricke via buildroot wrote:
> Hi Dario,
> 
> I tried your patch, but it didn't work for me. bmaptool failed with an
> error. The issue was that my home directory is encrypted using ecryptfs.
> This does not implement all ioctl options that are needed for bmaptool
> to read the block allocation of the image file. There also seem to be
> issues with ZFS, so I would recommend to not enable this by default for
> defconfigs.
> 

Is this something you could report to the upstream project?

https://github.com/yoctoproject/bmaptool/

The ZFS issue seems to be documented, c.f. 
https://github.com/yoctoproject/bmaptool/?tab=readme-ov-file#known-issues

Cheers,
Quentin