Read-only Operator in BPI R64

Banana Pi Router design BPI-R4(MT7988)
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I have an idea. The operating system running on BPI R64 can only read. That means when the power is turned off or off, everything I install on them is lost. is not? Thanks everyone for reading. If there are instructions or how to do, please help me under the comment section, or give me a link.

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Imho something like this can be done with overlayfs…google for readonly rootfs…

Have not done it but also interested in

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Kernel and rootfs are in squashfs ro partition in the beingging. FIles will be saved to jffs2 r/w partition whenever you install packages. Also when you modify files in read only partition, it will.trigger copy on write process and have a copy in jffs2 partition to make sure all files won’t lose after boot up.

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thanks for this answer!

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thanks for this answer! but the problem I need to solve is that I want everything to be lost when I turn off the power?

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you need ramdisk mode, just give an example by Openwrt.

  Target Images  --->
  [*] ramdisk  --->
     *** Root filesystem archives ***

finally, you can get xxxx-initramfs.bin file.

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thank you so much:heartbeat: