[OLPC-devel] Booting from uncleanly dismounted flash key.

[Richard Smith]

> > How much of as space hit are we going to take if we use ext3 rather
> > than ext2 in the boot kernel?
>
> Quite a lot -- 88390 bytes or so with a normal build with GCC 4.1.1:

Ouch.  That won't do.

> We might do better with a simple "journal replay" hack -- we could lift
> the code out of fsck.ext3.

Hmmm.. I wonder if busybox has a fsck in it already?  We could hack
that in and then just call fsck /dev/sda1 on the device before a mount
attempt.

-- 
Richard A. Smith