avoiding loopback for squashfs

Posted Feb 1, 2007 17:31 UTC (Thu) by daney (guest, #24551)
In reply to: avoiding loopback for squashfs by pjm
Parent article: Embedded Linux: Using Compressed File Systems

We use squashfs as the root on a NOR type flash with the mtd drivers. Something like this:

mksquashfs * ../root.squashfs -all-root -noappend

Then on the target device:

flashcp root.squashfs /dev/mtd1

The kernel command line to boot is then:

root=1f01 rootfstype=squashfs