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From: Kylo Ginsberg <kylo.ginsberg@gmail.com>
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Subject: jffs2 root fs: how to overwrite it?
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I have a jffs2 root file system.  As part of the user upgrade process,
running from linux, I need to blow the root fs away and replace it
with a new version.  One solution is to reserve a second piece of
flash for this purpose, copy it there on user request and instruct
u-boot to handle the copy, but I'd like not to waste the flash space.=20
Ideally, I'd have an inittab shutdown script umount root (if this is
possible) and copy an image from mem -> flash before rebooting.  Or
something of that sort.

How else do people accomplish this?  Thanks for your comments.

Kylo