Hi Paul, >> I see no real reason for adding that, I'm not even sure what happens >> if you load that module without having a jffs filesystem. We don't even >> provide userspace tools for creating such a filesystem. Besides, you >> don't need it at boottime, it's enough to just put it in the modules >> database and load it in init stage. >> >> Eric >> > > I was thinking ahead: > http://wiki.openwrt.org/SoekrisPort > > > Frankly, the MS-DOS filesystem 8x3 limitation is a bit of a pain and an > anachronism in this day and age. If we could make the CF card one big > jffs2 filesystem, we'd be better off. Unfortunately, grub doesn't > understand jffs2 yet. > The initrd_ide_cd package contains a vfat module, so long file names are supported. We only use the filesystem for initial booting and backing up, after booting the system runs completely in memory. I think that's the biggest difference between something like openwrt and LEAF. If I'm not mistaken openwrt uses the jffs2 filesystem "life" (wearing out the storage media).
Together with the limitations of syslinux, grub and lilo not booting from jffs2 I don't see a real need for supporting it as boot device fs. > However, after reading more about CF cards already doing wear leveling, > I'm questioning whether jffs2 makes sense other than for its intrinsic > size qualities. > True, that's one of the reasons I like a "run in memory" approach more appealing. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
