Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-05 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2013/8/3 Jonas Gorski j...@openwrt.org: On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Personally I'm playing with Broadcom devices, but my friend asked me for help with WNDR4300. It's a device very similar to the WNDR3700v4.

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-05 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2013/8/3 John Crispin j...@phrozen.org: On 03/08/13 16:04, Chirag Chhatriwala wrote: So what does this mean for the future of OpenWrt on NAND based devices? It seems like there are quite a few new and upcoming devices making use of NAND flash exclusively. If squashfs (which according to me

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-05 Thread John Crispin
On 05/08/13 08:13, Rafał Miłecki wrote: 2013/8/3 John Crispinj...@phrozen.org: On 03/08/13 16:04, Chirag Chhatriwala wrote: So what does this mean for the future of OpenWrt on NAND based devices? It seems like there are quite a few new and upcoming devices making use of NAND flash

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-05 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2013/8/5 John Crispin j...@phrozen.org: On 05/08/13 08:13, Rafał Miłecki wrote: 2013/8/3 John Crispinj...@phrozen.org: On 03/08/13 16:04, Chirag Chhatriwala wrote: So what does this mean for the future of OpenWrt on NAND based devices? It seems like there are quite a few new and upcoming

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-04 Thread Chirag Chhatriwala
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 10:13 AM, John Crispin j...@phrozen.org wrote: Hi, why so negative ? no one said we are throwing the towel ... in general those targets using nand need to be converted to using an intermediate layer such as ubi, which several targets already do. John, Sorry, I did

[OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-03 Thread Rafał Miłecki
Hi, Personally I'm playing with Broadcom devices, but my friend asked me for help with WNDR4300. It's a device very similar to the WNDR3700v4. http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR3700v4 http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR4300 http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3700

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-03 Thread Jonas Gorski
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Rafał Miłecki zaj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Personally I'm playing with Broadcom devices, but my friend asked me for help with WNDR4300. It's a device very similar to the WNDR3700v4. http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR3700v4

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-03 Thread Chirag Chhatriwala
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Jonas Gorski j...@openwrt.org wrote: No, this is a generic NAND flash problem. The issue is that squashfs has no bad block management at all and requires all blocks on order; but for proper NAND bad block management you also need to be able to skip bad blocks

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-03 Thread John Crispin
On 03/08/13 16:04, Chirag Chhatriwala wrote: So what does this mean for the future of OpenWrt on NAND based devices? It seems like there are quite a few new and upcoming devices making use of NAND flash exclusively. If squashfs (which according to me has been the filesystem of choice on my