On 09.04.2019 20:08, Kenneth J. Miller wrote:
The extroot mount preparation code for r/w rootfs overlay discovery, and
determining the user-defined /etc/config/fstab location within, would only
discover overlays residing on JFFS2 or UBIFS MTD storage.
This led to attempts at loading the uci fsta
On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 14:08, Kenneth J. Miller wrote:
The extroot mount preparation code for r/w rootfs overlay discovery, and
determining the user-defined /etc/config/fstab location within, would only
discover overlays residing on JFFS2 or UBIFS MTD storage.
This led to attempts at loading the
On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 at 14:08, Kenneth J. Miller wrote:
>
> The extroot mount preparation code for r/w rootfs overlay discovery, and
> determining the user-defined /etc/config/fstab location within, would only
> discover overlays residing on JFFS2 or UBIFS MTD storage.
>
> This led to attempts at lo
Val Kulkov [2019-05-14 17:03:11]:
> The patch was proposed last month by Kenneth Miller [1]. It enables
> extroot on x86_64-based devices. I confirm that the patch does what it
> claims. The issue with extroot on x86_64 devices is described in
> FS#2231 [2].
Then you should reply to that email[1
The patch was proposed last month by Kenneth Miller [1]. It enables
extroot on x86_64-based devices. I confirm that the patch does what it
claims. The issue with extroot on x86_64 devices is described in
FS#2231 [2].
Any possibility to see this patch in the trunk any time soon?
With this patch, o
The extroot mount preparation code for r/w rootfs overlay discovery, and
determining the user-defined /etc/config/fstab location within, would only
discover overlays residing on JFFS2 or UBIFS MTD storage.
This led to attempts at loading the uci fstab configuration without the
required /tmp/overla
Signed-off plain-text patch:
>From 6df03fc450d7f1e2b49791b0d384a7b1ae0d9c69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Miller
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 19:14:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] block: make extroot mount preparation more robust
The extroot mount preparation code for r/w rootfs overlay discovery, a
I had trouble using an ext4 extroot overlay on my Zyxel NBG6817 running
18.06.2, so I took a closer look at the way libfstools and its block
tool setup the extroot overlay during PREINIT and found some things
broke extroot mounting on certain devices.
The issue and logs are documented in the follo
