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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: JFFS - ready for submission into 2.[34]? 
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alex@cendio.se said:
> > We create our Linux (and even NT) workstations by just taking a dump
> > of the filesystem after installation, and dd'ing that onto the target. That
> > would work just as well for JFFS. 

> That doesn't work well in a factory producing thousands of cameras a week.

You don't have to create the image over and over again - it's no harder to 
use 'dd' than it is to use 'mkfs', surely?

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