I would link to have a read only / partition and a writeable /etc partition. The pain point I'm running into is populating /etc from the rootfs. The quick solution is to script the creation of disk images from the rootfs, outside the bitbake tool chain, however this seems non ideal.
I understand that there is the possibility to create partitions using wks files. The pain point with wks is that the if one specifies rootfs as the source of both / and /etc partitions both will be populated with the completed rootfs. The ideal scenario would be that the partitions are created and mounted then the rootfs is copied on top and the fstab is installed (as in the installation of other GNU/Linux distributions).
If anyone has solved or knows how to solve this problem neatly in an image recipe for example some tips would be much appreciated.
