I have a bunch of stuff loaded onto a USB drive (which I've mounted on /opt), but the core services (network, kernel modules etc) are on the internal jffs drive.
My first problem is how to properly handle the extra paths. I can put it into profile.sh (making sure I also include a LD_LIBRARY_PATH).. but it also needs to be used for other areas like system services or other services that either want to use their own path - or are started from an init script. My solution is to have a special version of rc.common (brilliant idea btw) that when 'enabled' will register the init script in ../rc.d/ - so in my case /opt/etc/rc.d. (I haven't quite finessed that one -but it is getting there). Then, rather than waiting till a full fsck is finished - or whatever - for all the core services to come up - my usbmount script spawns a process that does the fsck, mounts the usbdrive on /opt and then sets the path to include /opt and does a simple init of services in /opt/etc/rc.d/S* usbmount also as a stop() that stops all the services in /opt/etc/rc.d/K* and unmounts the drive. This means that the base services are up and going - and then the advanced services on the /opt drive are started - which suits me well. At the moment I've hard-coded various items (like the usb drive path) .. but it wouldn't take too much work to put the configuration into /etc/config/ The first service run on the drive at the moment sets up a loop swap space. This should also be made into a nicer config. Question: Would people be interested in this if I developed it a bit further? Perhaps packaged it up? //.ichael Geddes. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org http://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
