[OpenWrt-Users] rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Jan Hetges wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 05:35:40PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> >   after booting my wrt54gl, i can see the contents of /proc/cmdline,
> > which contains the option:
>
> after booting what? Version?
> >
> >   rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2
> >

ah, i thought that might be a fairly common boot-time option across
the gamut of openwrt's.  this is whiterussian 0.9.

> > what does it mean to have two different fs types there?  i realize
> > that the R/O root FS is squashfs, while mini_fo is used to handle
> > changes to that into JFFS2.  but why is the above required?  who
> > are you notifying about the possible FS types, and what does it
> > mean to list two different types there?  thanks.

as i said, mostly, it's just a general question as to what that
boot-time option *means* when it has more than one FS type.  i might
ask on the kernel newbies mailing list, unless someone here pipes up
first.

> p.s. i prefer mailing-lists too ;-)

yeah, that whole graphical forums thing sometimes is just too
overkill when you have a simple question, and when you want to bounce
around between topics.

rday
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