Wei, James wrote: > As for UnionFS, will it be used in Moblin with btrfs+squashFS later?
I can't see a reason why we would. I can't even see a reason for squashfs either btw, btrfs has compression built in ... > > -----Original Message----- > From: dev-boun...@moblin.org [mailto:dev-boun...@moblin.org] On Behalf Of > Arjan van de Ven > Sent: 2009年9月25日 14:34 > To: Olsen, Alan R > Cc: dev@moblin.org > Subject: Re: [Moblin Dev] will moblin ever be able to use ext4? > > Olsen, Alan R wrote: >> Ext4 would not be difficult to add. Ext4 is a rather young filesystem, so >> there has not been a big rush to adopt it. > > that has not been Moblin's motivation. > We did not see enough value in it to change to it. > BTRFS has this extra value that makes it interesting to us. > > >> UnionFS used to be a part of the builds as well. It was very useful in >> adding "reset to factory default" to the filesystem. (The way you make it >> work is you have a base partition that is marked read only and another added >> on top of that one with read/write. Any additions get written to the second >> partition. If things get messed up you just nuke the second partition and >> things are reset back to start.) > > it hasn't been part of Moblin 2.0 > > >> Hopefully btrfs will stabilize soon. It looks very promising. Not certain >> how much overhead there is to make it work. Might be a wee bit of overkill >> on a handheld device. > > If Moblin switches to it, we'll switch to it for all types of devices. > Right now things look very good in that area, we haven't found a showstopper > yet... > The switch isn't for the upcoming 2.1 release, but for the Q1/2010 releasse. > > > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > dev@moblin.org > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List dev@moblin.org To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
