On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Rafał Miłecki <zaj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Personally I'm playing with Broadcom devices, but my friend asked me > for help with WNDR4300. It's a device very similar to the WNDR3700v4. > > http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR3700v4 > http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR4300 > > http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3700 > http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr4300 > > It seems OpenWrt has a profile for this device: > https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/34650/trunk/target/linux/ar71xx/generic/profiles/netgear.mk > > but it says about some problems with squashfs/jffs2. > > Could someone describe that issue, please? What's the problem with > that filesystems and NAND? I use Broadcom based WNDR4500 which keeps > squashfs and jffs2 on NAND, and it seems to work OK. > It this some Atheros specific problem?
No, this is a generic NAND flash problem. The issue is that squashfs has no bad block management at all and requires all blocks on order; but for proper NAND bad block management you also need to be able to skip bad blocks and occasionally relocate blocks (see [1]). That's why raw squashfs is a bad idea on NAND (it works if you use a FTL like ubi). Regards, Jonas [1] http://www.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2006-April/015386.html _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
