On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:09 PM, Stuart Longland > <[email protected]> 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..)
if you want to give it a go, use this base image: https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-01-28/buster-iot/bone-debian-buster-iot-armhf-2018-01-28-4gb.img.xz it's one partition btrfs. 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYh%2BwdMXkCmvqA_3DY5HBBoGNGSeq5ufRXx8A00daGigew%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
