On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 17:01 +0100, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> 
> Yes. For squashfs + jffs based systems you could also investigate the 
> contents of /jffs,
> which contains only files that where modified compared to the initial rom 
> file system.

Yes, that is an interesting approach for such systems.  Wouldn't apply
to me though as I mount / from a USB storage device and use it as a
regular RW filesystem.

> It builds a temporary ramdisk, chroots to it, flashes the image from there and
> reinitalizes the jffs2 partition from within the yet running system.

Interesting.

> It works pretty well now.

Good news.

> 
> > So how do I know which ones specifically that is?
> 
> Basically all platforms that utilize squashfs + jffs2 in only one single 
> image file for
> flashing. Examples for that are bcm47xx, bcm63xx, x86 (not for ext2) and 
> others.

Ahhh.  Cool.  I might have to try playing with this on my WRT54GS.

> Yes, I'd suggest to try it out. If it supports your platform then it might be 
> a suitable
> solution for you.

Is it, or will it some day get Luci driven to operate as seamlessly as
native firmware upgrades?

b.



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