User-Scripts: Earliest time to access a file on jffs partition?

[Mars2035]

Hi,
according to https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/wiki/User-scripts init-start is the earliest part right after jffs partion is mounted. Means that I can start accessing files on jffs from init-start script? E.g. to run program.
But if I call in /jffs/scripts/init-start

#!/bin/sh
stat /jffs/myprog > /jffs/myprog.log

it produces the log file but with empty content
Myprog is an executable that I can run fine after boot.

Or what would be then the earliest (user script) part to run an executable from jffs?

Thanks for answering.

 

[RMerlin]

init-start is the earliest. JFFS is obviously mounted, otherwise the router wouldn't be able to find init-start

The rest of the OS might not be ready yet however.

 

[Mars2035]

The rest of the OS...

You mean standard tools and services, but why is it possible to make a bind mount on jffs as mentioned here https://www.snbforums.com/threads/tip-how-to-use-modified-webpages-for-the-webui.10847/ (mount /jffs/dnsmasq /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -o bind ...) ?

 

[RMerlin]

You mean standard tools and services, but why is it possible to make a bind mount on jffs as mentioned here https://www.snbforums.com/threads/tip-how-to-use-modified-webpages-for-the-webui.10847/ (mount /jffs/dnsmasq /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -o bind ...) ?

Because as mentioned JFFS is available at that point in time.

Where is your stat command located? It's not part of the firmware. So if it comes from Entware, Entware isn't up and running yet at that init-start time.

 

[Bill Waggoner]

Just a thought but you might also redirect stderr to see if you are getting a fatal error.