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[MostlyHarmless]

Now that you ask ...

[bacicciosat]

Hola Gutemine, nice to read you.

[Meega]

If we do not have multiboot, have some version of dflash, PLI functional in 3.0?

gutemine is pretty sure that it works too :-)

Don't know if you are gutemine but i've tryed dflash 2 times ,and when i make the backup everything is fine but when you recover ,the box will go in stop mode after reboot.
I have a dm8000 with Openpli 3.0.
Perhaps i am doing something wrong although the backup is created fine.

[samukets]

Cloud on the subject, I say with certainty that the PLI dflash works well in 3.0! But not all versions of dflash, say as a hint that not always the most updated version is functional! The Dflash greatly facilitates our life, we do not have multiboot by issues of instability!

[MostlyHarmless]

it works nicely if you have a dFlash version with mkfs.jffs supporting lzo compression too. This can be easily checked in telnet:

/tmp/dFlash/bin/mkfs.jffs2 -L
mkfs.jffs2: error!:
lzo priority:80 enabled <<<<
zlib priority:60 enabled
rtime priority:50 enabled

The problem is that this is one of gutemine's 'clone friedly binaries', which means there are lot of old or hacked versions of dFlash which use old mkfs.jffs2 binaries which are only capable of zlib compression. Which will only produce non bootable backups as the PLi Kernel doesn't support it anymore.

If you use latest dFlash gutemine is pretty sure that it works as it should.

If you don't like this approach compile your own mkfs.jffs2 binary - it's all open source.

Edited by MostlyHarmless, 26 November 2012 - 17:26.

[Meega]

it works nicely if you have a dFlash version with mkfs.jffs supporting lzo compression too. This can be easily checked in telnet:

/tmp/dFlash/bin/mkfs.jffs2 -L
mkfs.jffs2: error!:
lzo priority:80 enabled <<<<
zlib priority:60 enabled
rtime priority:50 enabled

The problem is that this is one of gutemine's 'clone friedly binaries', which means there are lot of old or hacked versions of dFlash which use old mkfs.jffs2 binaries which are only capable of zlib compression. Which will only produce non bootable backups as the PLi Kernel doesn't support it anymore.

If you use latest dFlash gutemine is pretty sure that it works as it should.

If you don't like this approach compile your own mkfs.jffs2 binary - it's all open source.

This is my output :

root@dm8000:~# /tmp/dFlash/bin/mkfs.jffs2 -L
mkfs.jffs2: error!:
lzo priority:80 enabled
zlib priority:60 enabled
rtime priority:50 enabled
Version of dflash = 7.9 and that's the one from the feed of Openpli.

I'm sorry ,i cannot compile myself.

Which one is the latest version and could you provide it to Openpli please?

[MostlyHarmless]

This is not a Support thread for gutemine's Plugins but the latest dFlash version is now 8.11 which added the support for both OE 1.6 and OE 2.0 which would mean PLi 2.1 and 3.0 backup with the same plugin.

If you want it the it should be no problem to find it.

And yes 7.9 should work too, but some of its binaries will not like the holiday season as gutemine always only supports the latest version.

Edited by MostlyHarmless, 26 November 2012 - 17:52.

[samukets]

You pointed to the version number dflash, and for multiboot which version works?

[MostlyHarmless]

Only the latest is supported, which is currently Barry Allen 8.0 and this includes also Wally West 8.0 in case you want to keep your kernel.

But this is something you could easily find out yourself ... as this is not a support Thread.

Edited by MostlyHarmless, 26 November 2012 - 19:14.