#616 NORM Update.: Partition support in olpcrd and olpc-update (was: Kernel being in main file system doubles JFFS2 mount time.)

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#616: Partition support in olpcrd and olpc-update
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  Reporter:  jg           |       Owner:  cscott          
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new             
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Update.2 (8.2.0)
 Component:  distro       |     Version:                  
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  rel-8.2.0:?     
  Verified:  1            |    Blocking:                  
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Comment(by cscott):

 I feel like there's probably some other bug in trac for this, but let me
 try to summarize the current status here.

 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Early_boot specifies the filesystem layout for a
 three partition scheme: one partition holds /boot and /security, the next
 holds the "OS" (/), and the third holds /home.  We even agreed on the
 sizes of these partitions, although I forget the exact numbers we decided
 on.

 I'm in the process of adding boot support from partitions to olpcrd.  The
 step after that would be to extend the build tools to generate partitioned
 images, and images that update only the / partition.  (olpcrd would have
 to notice when it was being booted from a kernel/ramdisk in /boot that
 doesn't match what's in / and update /boot appropriately.)  Then olpc-
 update would have to be taught the correct steps to update partitioned
 filesystems.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/616#comment:9>
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