[OpenWrt-Devel] [RFC] Pre-seeded files/directories for UBIFS

[Richard Weinberger]

Geert,

Am 21.05.2017 um 10:37 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven:
> On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 9:36 PM, Ralph Sennhauser
> <ralph.sennhauser at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There is also the size consideration. Unless a seeded ubifs can get
>> close to squashfs in terms of compression there would still be a
>> use-case for squashfs with an ubifs overlay. My current root as ubifs
>> instead of squashfs is 76.8% bigger.
> 
> As seeded files are stored and kept unmodified, they could be stored in
> compressed form?

This is what UBIFS already does.

Thanks,
//richard