Hi. > As a user I don't care about the restoring factory settings, as I back > up my settings.
You might start to care if you bricked the system and need failsafe. > The question is how much compression do you get and is > this worth the price of having such a small overlay? Yes. Squashfs compresses two to three times better than any writeable filesystem option available in Openwrt. > Has anyone merged the overlay back into the main root or is this not > possible? It is possible by using a jffs2 root filesystem, however then the size explodes. Also for what purpose? Overlay uses space that is unused anyway, you gain nothing by "merging it back into the main root". > It sounds it me that openWRT on the WRT54gl is only really > > able to be used for quite basic tasks due to the size of the overlay, is > this a fair assessment? No its not. If you build your own images with needed stuff embedded into squashfs you can pack quite some features. ~ Jow _______________________________________________ openwrt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-users
