Bummer. Upon further reading I see the difference in flash devices now. Do you think UBIFS could replace JFFS on the Freerunner? Is there a benefit? Or is there not enough wiggle room on the FR for caching? It seems better overall [1]. Would it be possible to replace it yourself with the appropriate kernel modules etc?
Ok enough questions ;-) -Nick 1. http://lwn.net/Articles/275706/ Lorn Potter wrote: > nickd wrote: > >> I haven't sorry. Coincidentaly, the new kernel which was released the >> other day (.27) includes a new filesystem designed for flash drives - >> UBIFS [1]. I wonder if this could be relevant to this project. It looks >> like it has full write-back support, meaning it doesn't need to write to >> the SD card all the time, although I guess we don't have that much >> memory to play with. >> > > > ubifs wont work on sd cards, which are not true flash devices. > but it is relevant and could replace jffs2. > > > > Lorn 'ljp' Potter > Software Engineer, Systems Group, Qt Software, Nokia Pty Ltd > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community