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== Development phase ==

Exporting the directories via NFS, make the target able to mount remote root file systems, so it is easy to use big root file systems (plenty of applications and data) during the development phase, being able to test modifications without downloading and flashing any image on the target. For example, you can cross-compile your applications and libraries on the host machine, putting the binaries on a NFS-shared directory mounted by the target (it can be the same remote root file system directory, but it could also be another devel directory). In this way, at run-time, the target immediately sees the modification you made, so you can quickly launch and test your freshly compiled application.