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From: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>
To: leeyang <leeyang@ycig.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: need suggestion about embedded FS plan
Date: 03 Feb 2003 12:27:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1044300428.15823.11.camel@timmy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001401c2c802$8b31ed30$0200a8c0@ycigrnd.ycig.com>

> In fact,there is only a little fs need to
> be 'SAVE',like /etc direcory,it take rooms less
> than %1 of all flash size.And the main parts
> /lib,/sbin,/bin...maybe never changed.
> So I have an idea,
> Put main parts of fs(/lib,/sbin....)on Cramfs
> at one of the flash bank.
> Put bootloader,kernel and need-save-fs(/etc) on
> the other flash bank with jffs2 fs.
> 
> Is that possible?Sth ,I am not sure,is if no
> /etc in root fs,Maybe it can not boot up!!!

just make a /linuxrc, linuxrc is a shell script run by the kernel
(init=/linuxrc) that would do stuff like:

#!/bin/sh
mount -t ramfs ramfs /var
mount -t ramfs ramfs /tmp
mkdir /var/run
mkdir /var/lock
mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtd2 /etc
exec /sbin/init



-- 
Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-03 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-30  1:54 need suggestion about embedded FS plan leeyang
2003-02-03 19:27 ` Russ Dill [this message]
2003-02-03 19:29   ` Siddharth Choudhuri
2003-02-03 19:37     ` Russ Dill
2003-02-03 21:37   ` Henrik Nordstrom

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