SD card flashing time

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:01 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> No, certainly not.  There's no justification for either mke2fs or
> resize2fs to write to blocks that do not form part of the filesystem
> metadata.  Why would you want to zero-out blocks anyway?

Thinking of a deployment trying minimize reflash times.

What if they have a signed Forth script to run on a USB stick that... ?

 - runs fs-update u:\myimage.zd -- a "small-sized" img
 - boots a signed kernel and signed initramfs from the USB stick --
where the initramfs just executes resize2fs, prints success/failure
and waits to be switched off

cheers,



m
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