Daniel that is interesting. My arm devices are booting directly on ubifs. One is running ubuntu ( SheevaPlug ) and the other Fed 8 ( OpenRD Client). I am going to build Fed 11 this weekend for the OpenRD Client and then try and get the XS bits ported to it (but that is for a separate thread with Martin L.)
These devices use a special build of u-boot from Marvell to initiate the boot. Wish I knew how to create drivers for OFW so it could boot from UBIFS. On Jul 28, 2009, at 9:53 PM, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2009/7/29 rihowa...@gmail.com <rihowa...@gmail.com>: >> Any thoughts on moving from jffs to ubifs ? >> Seems like ubifs has really improved in stability recently. > > I think we are ready to do this without too much hassle - but first > let's wait until someone has actually made and published a build and > offered some kind of loose commitment to doing this on a regular > basis. > > At that point, the relevant links are: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/UBIFS_on_XO > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/UBIFS_initial_experiments > > I think the only remaining question from the earlier work was about > the readings given by df -- but upstream justified that behaviour, so > that is no longer an outstanding issue. > > The work will then be to: > - modify the build system to build partitioned images (we need jffs2 > for /boot) -- I wonder if this will cause complications given the OLPC > versioned filesystem layout... > - modify livecd-iso-to-xo to make a ubifs filesystem for the root, > and jffs2 for boot > - teach dracut how to boot from UBI > > Daniel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel