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Subject: Re: mib0 flash partition TL-WDR3600
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
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It's just a hold-over from the atheros layout. On 16mb devices they
tended to have a mib0 partition that contained a bunch more leftover
space and would put things like a big overlayfs on it.

until nandfs grows nor support and is actually stable, we can't really
use it. :(


-a


On 11 October 2015 at 15:14, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> What does /dev/map/mib0 flash partition do in TL-WDR3600 device?
> What is it for?
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