On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:48:52AM -0600, Shane McDonald wrote: > > If the rootfs really is in ram only (and thus you discard any changes to > > it) you can just use an initramfs which is a lot simpler than any of the > > cramfs and squashfs hacks and supported by platform-independent code. > The rootfs is ram only with a union mount of a jffs2 filesystem to retain > changes. The target system is a resource-constrained router board, and we > were trying to keep everything as small as possible. If I remember > correctly, this code originally came over from an internal 2.4 port on an > even more resource-constrained platform; perhaps there are better options in > today's world. > > I will look into a better solution to this problem. In the meantime, I'm > hesitant to remove the existing code -- I think I prefer to leave it > uncompilable until that solution is found. You may want to chainsaw it into a shape were it's usable in some way - for example with NFS root until you have a chance to sort this out. Ralf
