[debian-non-standard] ubifs
Tomasz Chmielewski
mangoo at wpkg.org
Sun Sep 28 18:50:29 CEST 2008
Martin Steigerwald schrieb:
> Hi!
>
> Would ubifs on ubi make sense for the flash ROM portion of OpenWRT which
> is an MTD device? It is included in 2.6.27[1]. It appears to be writable,
> so one might even update a kernel without reflashing the whole OpenWRT
> image.
Debia is too large to fit 4 or 8 MB flash, so no, using flash wouldn't
make sense here, whether it's ubifs or squashfs.
It is obligatory to have a kernel there of course.
> Otherwise the kexec/kdump approach would allow having the kernel on the
> USB stick.
Yep. I couldn't make it work with ASUS WL-500gP, even with 2.5.25 kernel
- search kexec mailing list for details.
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