On 2016-01-03 22:17, Daniel Golle wrote: > On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 04:02:58PM +0100, Felix Fietkau wrote: >> On 2016-01-02 15:11, RhoYounJae wrote: >> > Currently, the devices which actually uses ubifs filesystem uses squashfs >> > filesystem >> > Thus openwrt binary image have a wrong squashfs- prefix not ubifs- which >> > gives user confusion >> > This patch add ubifs filesystem for image building system but not for >> > legacy system >> You're right about one thing: These images do use ubifs, however only as >> an overlay. The base filesystem is squashfs, just like on all those NOR >> flash based devices (which use jffs2 as overlay). >> >> I might accept a patch that adds ubifs as an option, if you can convince >> me that it's actually useful, but replacing the squashfs images with >> ubifs ones is not an option. > > Similar to having a JFFS2 read-write-mounted rootfs without any overlay > can make sense in certain (rare) scenaria. I intended to use a ubifs > rootfs in those situations on devices which need UBI. > There already is a way to generate images having ubifs rootfs, see e.g. > https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/target/linux/oxnas/image/Makefile#L90 Not a very good example, it still uses the old image building code ;)
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