Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] The future of block-extroot and preinit

2011-01-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 1) More space for packages is needed than available flash storage (we > may also want more data storage, but generally that doesn't depend on > having a larger rootfs, as it can easily go somewhere other than root) I can think of 2 separate cases: a) the extra flash space is "owned": it's expec

[OpenWrt-Devel] The future of block-extroot and preinit

2011-01-30 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Hi all, I wanted to let you know what I'm thinking for block-extroot in general I am not planning on further work on block-extroot, but rather addressing the reasons block-extroot was created. Basically I see a few scenarios where block-extroot, or functionality requested for block-root applies