Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] Pre-seeded files/directories for UBIFS

2017-05-21 Thread Richard Weinberger
Ralph, Am 21.05.2017 um 14:23 schrieb Ralph Sennhauser: > If the seeded ubifs could be generalized to snapshot support ala btrfs > that would change things a lot as it would enable uses far beyond just > factory reset. No idea how feasible that is but might be worth > considering instead. I thoug

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] Pre-seeded files/directories for UBIFS

2017-05-21 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
Hi Richard On Sun, 21 May 2017 10:40:05 +0200 Richard Weinberger wrote: > Geert, > > Am 21.05.2017 um 10:37 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Ralph Sennhauser > > wrote: > >> There is also the size consideration. Unless a seeded ubifs can get > >> close to squa

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] Pre-seeded files/directories for UBIFS

2017-05-21 Thread Richard Weinberger
Geert, Am 21.05.2017 um 10:37 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Ralph Sennhauser > wrote: >> There is also the size consideration. Unless a seeded ubifs can get >> close to squashfs in terms of compression there would still be a >> use-case for squashfs with an ubifs

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] Pre-seeded files/directories for UBIFS

2017-05-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > There is also the size consideration. Unless a seeded ubifs can get > close to squashfs in terms of compression there would still be a > use-case for squashfs with an ubifs overlay. My current root as ubifs > instead of squashfs is 76.8% b

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] Pre-seeded files/directories for UBIFS

2017-05-20 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
Hi Richard, On Sat, 20 May 2017 21:57:36 +0200 Richard Weinberger wrote: > Ralph, > > Am 20.05.2017 um 21:36 schrieb Ralph Sennhauser: > >>> These days I had an interesting discussion with Christoph about > >>> overlayfs and its burden. The main use-case of overlayfs in > >>> combination with U

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] Pre-seeded files/directories for UBIFS

2017-05-20 Thread Richard Weinberger
Ralph, Am 20.05.2017 um 21:36 schrieb Ralph Sennhauser: >>> These days I had an interesting discussion with Christoph about >>> overlayfs and its burden. The main use-case of overlayfs in >>> combination with UBIFS is having a squashfs as lower and UBIFS as >>> upper directory. Such that all chang

Re: [LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] Pre-seeded files/directories for UBIFS

2017-05-20 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Sat, 20 May 2017 11:39:33 -0700 Florian Fainelli wrote: > Hello, > > On 05/20/2017 09:12 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > > Hi! > > > > These days I had an interesting discussion with Christoph about > > overlayfs and its burden. The main use-case of overlayfs in > > combination with UBIFS is