Am Monday 13 October 2008 02:14:06 schrieb nickd: > Bummer. Upon further reading I see the difference in flash devices now. > Do you think UBIFS could replace JFFS on the Freerunner? Is there a > benefit? Or is there not enough wiggle room on the FR for caching? It > seems better overall [1]. Would it be possible to replace it yourself > with the appropriate kernel modules etc? > > Ok enough questions ;-) > -Nick > 1. http://lwn.net/Articles/275706/ > > Lorn Potter wrote: > > nickd wrote: > >> I haven't sorry. Coincidentaly, the new kernel which was released the > >> other day (.27) includes a new filesystem designed for flash drives - > >> UBIFS [1]. I wonder if this could be relevant to this project. It looks > >> like it has full write-back support, meaning it doesn't need to write to > >> the SD card all the time, although I guess we don't have that much > >> memory to play with. > > > > ubifs wont work on sd cards, which are not true flash devices. > > but it is relevant and could replace jffs2.
As could yaffs2. Missing "just" someone compiling an image and doing some benchmarks. With OE it should be easy. -- :M: _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
