On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:13:34 +0200 Radek Polak <pson...@seznam.cz> wrote: [...] > We had problems with ubifs too. Gennady talked to ubifs devs and they > would like to see the kernel message and nandump so they could try > too look into it. > > It seems that ubifs is not as stable as jffs2 which was 100% perfect. > Only problem is that jffs2 cant do mmap and apt-get does not work > without mmap. > > Jffs2 will never do mmap (according to the main devel it's a lot of > complex work because of compression) so we have these options now: > > * live with bugged ubifs > * patch apt-get so that it works without mmap > * use the old trick with /var/cache/apt on tmpfs, but this has > problems with limited memory and bigger upates/upgrades might not work > * use some other flash filesystem - yaffs seems but does not support > compression, i havent looked at logfs yet > > So any suggestions?
We could use jffs2 if we link /var/cache/apt to a tiny partition on SD. Then while SD is in huge updates will work, if SD is removed -> no apt, but still a runing system. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
