>> I see. Sounds like a lot of trouble just to remove jffs2.
> Yes. Is there any particular reason you're trying to do so? I see
> what you're trying to do, but no why. JFFS2 is rather well suited for
> the hardware OpenWRT is targeted at, integrated HD or not. Does the
> 700gE not have any flash at all? What do you hope to gain by
> propagating yet another edge case?
The WL-700gE only has 2MB of flash, so if you're careful to strip down
the firmware image, you get a tiny jffs2 partition that's half-working
(too few erase blocks available for jffs2 to work reliably), and in any
case the jffs2 is only used to override the squashfs files to make them
mount /dev/hde1 and pivot to it early in the boot process (e.g. by
replacing /sbin/init with a script that does
mount+pivot+exec/sbin/init).
And with more recent images, I even find it difficult to get a small
enough image that there is space at all for a jffs2 partition.
So instead, I change the source code so there's no need to use a jffs2
to override the squashfs files (basically I add a few lines to
/sbin/mount_root to try and mount /dev/hde1 and pivot to it).
Not using a jffs2 partition gives me very valuable space to add some
handy tools (handy when the /dev/hde drive somehow fails to mount), and
removing the jffs2 code would give me yet a bit more space for more
such tools. But it's not like it's a big deal.
Stefan
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