[PATCH] linux: add in labels for block2mtd

Peter Naulls peter at chocky.org
Tue Nov 29 09:05:51 PST 2022


On 11/29/22 11:50, Daniel Golle wrote:

> 
> There is nothing wrong with that use-case, and it can even be
> interesting for other downstream users. Encrypted rootfs_data is
> generally a good idea, especially when rootfs_data is used to store
> private key material (think: VPN keys) or other kind of credentials.
> 
> I was more wondering why you are using JFFS2 on a block device, instead
> of e.g. using F2FS or EXT4 which are intended for block devices.

Our flash is NOR.  We will probably move to NAND in the next iteration of
hardware, but this is what we have for now.

I'm open to other ways to make it work, but this is the arrangement that
I was able to make work in my research and testing, and that a colleague
used successfully on a non-OpenWrt system.







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