On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 07:43:59PM +0200, Bastian Bittorf wrote: > * Daniel Golle <dan...@makrotopia.org> [23.09.2016 19:19]: > > [...] > > > On Android and other embedded systems, this whole issue is solved by > > having a designated volume mounted on /data, usually backed by a > > partition on an sdcard or the like. > > > > Similarly, on systems with block or large (SLC!) NAND storage we > > could introduce an additional partition/volume mounted on /data and > > just not have that directory on systems without any storage options. > > [...] > > in our systems we introduced 2 new global varnames: > > $TMPDIR (like 'temp') > $PERMDIR (like 'permanent')
That's kinda the idea. How do you know during runtime if $PERMDIR was successfully mounted, ie. if a service which requires permanent storage should be started? > > this makes it clearer in the code and we are "future-safe". > > bye, bastian _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
