android 使用 NFS 根文件系统

android可以通过修改bootenv和kernel的配置，实现rootfs从nfs中启动，这样，每次修改rootfs过后，或者修改package的apk后，可以直接从nfs启动，而不需要重新烧录，调试时速度更快。

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Usually the Android uses YAFFS as rootfs and uses the mtd device as storage media, the bad blocks in the mtd device seldom cause YAFFS file system to work abnormally. if the Android uses NFS as the rootfs, there will not exist such problem. So here is the solution to use NFS as the rootfs of Android.

1.        Setup host machine as NFS server (I will use ubuntu 8.0.4 as an example.).

$ sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server portmap

$ sudo mkdir /nfsroot

$ sudo vim /etc/exports  

      Add one line in /etc/exports,

/nfsroot  192.168.1.101(rw,no_root_squash ,sync)

Then restart NFS server.

 $ sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart Here setups an NFS server which exports /nfsroot directory only to 192.168.1.101(Which is the default IP address of Android eth0).

2.          Build a Linux kernel image to use NFS as rootfs.

$make menuconfig

Modify the default setup. In "general setup" section, uncheck the "initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk(initramfs/initrd) support".  In "file systems" section, check the "Network File Systems" and mark it as kernel built-in. In "boot options" section, add the kernel parameter "root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.100:/nfsroot init=/init ". 192.168.1.100 is the IP address of host machine running NFS server.

3.          Modify init program.

      To make log system work, in the device/system/init modify the device.c by change the statement '!strncmp(uevent->path,"/class/misc/",12) && !strncmp(name, "log_", 4) to '!strncmp(name, "log_", 4) '.  

4.          Modify init.rc config file.

      Comment out below statements

mount rootfs rootfs /ro remount

mount yaffs mtd@system /system

mount yaffs2 mtd@system /system ro remout

mount yaffs2 mtd@userdata /data nosuid nodev

mount yaffs2 mtd@cache /cache nosuid nodev

5.          Add the user id and group id used by android on the NFS server.

      Android does not use /ect/passwd file to record the user name and user id, it uses a fixed method to map the user name to user id through the head file device/include/private/android_filesystem_config.h, e.g. the user "system" has the user id of 1000.

      So to correctly set the file ownership(owner and group), the NFS server should have these users with correct user IDs. Such as system(1000). For ubuntu, you can call like this.

$sudo userdd -u 1000 android_system

      This step is not necessary. It only allows you to display a user name in the develop machine.

6.          Prepare the rootfs.

      Assume the built output of device lies in device/out/target/product/***/, which is called $OUTPUTDIR later. Do the follwings:

$cp -rf $OUTPUTDIR/root/* /nfsroot

$cp -rf $OUTPUTDIR/system /nfsroot

$cp -rf $OUTPUTDIR/data /nfsroot