On Oct 05 2008, at 10:50, Jim Gettys was caught saying: > On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 16:32 -1000, Mitch Bradley wrote: > > > I have considered something like that off and on. It's sort of nice to > > have a definite length for the images. There are ways around that, but > > they are a bit ugly at some level. It's sort of a tossup at some level. > > > > One difficultly with having a lot of partitions is that it makes it more > > likely that you will encounter the resizing issue. > > > > > Ubifs is built on the Ubi layer, which handles resizing (and does so in > the face of flash errors).
UBI may handle resizeable volumes but I think for our use case, we want static volume sizes. > http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_autoresize > > Then again, since ubifs mounts quickly, the largest reason for > partitioning we've had (to reduce boot time) evaporates. There may be > other reasons to want partitioning, given dynamic resizing a'la lvm, > however. > > If we go to non-bare flash, of course, other solutions will have to be > found. We'll still need to support existing deployed laptops so I see the what type of flash do we use in future updates problem as orthogonal to replacing the filesystem on current HW. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena - Kernel Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
