On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Stuart Longland <stua...@longlandclan.id.au> wrote: > On 01/02/18 10:07, Mone wrote: >> I tried with a new snapshot and it works very well. Alongside that, I am >> curious and would like to learn about the BBB conversion from ext4 to >> flash filesystem. Are there any documentation/manual online that could >> explain/hint/guide through the filesystem conversion from ext4 to flash >> filesystem like btrfs? > > It's worth pointing out that btrfs is not a flash filesystem, it needs a > FTL (Flash Transition Layer) to do wear levelling on a NAND flash the > same as EXT4 does. > > Your biggest hurdle is the fact that U-Boot does not understand btrfs, > so you'll need a /boot partition formatted EXT4. Not sure that this is > likely to change, as porting btrfs to U-Boot could be a major > undertaking as it's much more complex.
Actually U-Boot has btrfs support as of v2018.01 (even ZLIB compression! lzo is broken). We got a patch merged in v2018.03-rc1 that fixes (lzo compression..) Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYi%3DSVwz40Fv24VqTZz-vbZkhp7AkFeN3rE0_2qqKbmLBQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
