Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:27:45 -0700 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6 v7] overlay filesystem - request for inclusion |
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org> wrote: > > We're using it in OpenWrt (an Embedded Linux distribution) for devices > with tiny amounts of flash for the entire system (e.g. 4 MB). > We're using it to provide a writable on-flash root filesystem with > squashfs for the read-only part and jffs2 for the writable overlay. This > saves some precious flash space compared to using only jffs2, and it > makes it easy for users to reset their device to defaults without having > to reflash. > With a backport of v6 of this series + my fixes that went into v7 this > is working quite well on 2.6.37 and 2.6.38 - I'm using it on a few > wireless access points at home.
Ok - sounds like an eminently sane and reasonable usage scenario.
Al?
Linus
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