[LEDE-DEV] Advice on filesystem for x86 (CF card)

[Mikael Bak]

Hi txt.file,

On 2018-04-11 14:48, txt.file wrote:
> There is no need to create a bigger squashfs as squashfs is read-only.
> With squashfs you get two file systems. squashfs for the files in the
> image and jffs2 for changed/added files. During the first boot the jffs2
> is created. It starts after the end of the squashfs until the end of
> device. The good point is that you have some failsafe mode where you
> ignore the jffs2 and only load the squashfs. Then your device has the
> same behavior as directly after flashing.
> 
> With ext4 you get a single read-write file system (which makes failsafe
> difficult).
> 
> This is how ar71xx works and I expect x86 does the same. If I am wrong
> correct me, please.
> 
> kind regards
> txt.file
> 

Yeah, I know it's useless to expand the squashfs part. What I really 
want is to expand the overlay part so it can use the entire remaining 
space on my CF card.

Thanks,
Mikael