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jonas.holmberg@axis.com said:
>  The latter i'm afraid... but I'm working on using jffs2 instead of
> cramfs. Would you recommend a read-only (mount -o ro) jffs2 root
> partition as a replacement for a cramfs root partition?

If the mount time is OK for you, yes. Otherwise you'd want checkpointing 
implemented first. 

Note that I actually made it obey 'readonly' quite recently. Until a month 
or so ago, it was still starting the GC thread when it was supposed to be 
RO.

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dwmw2