Two OpenWrt updates

Posted Apr 22, 2022 19:30 UTC (Fri) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106)
In reply to: Two OpenWrt updates by bmork
Parent article: Two OpenWrt updates

> One very important compromise is to put as much as possible of the required software in a compressed read-only file system, and use an overlay file system for configuration and optional packages. Software installed in the overlay will waste much more flash than software installed in the initial read-only file system.

Add-on packages could also be installed as discrete compressed read-only filesystem images to be overlayed on top of the root filesystem, rather than unpacking them into the uncompressed read/write filesystem.