On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > > Of course, this equation gets still more complicated depending on > > whether we have MTD or FTL flash. Choosing a filesystem will be > > an interesting exercise. > > I think it's clear that we'll be using an FTL of some kind. (Which > kind in particular will depend on more testing with the new A-Test > board.) > > So, as a strawman, I'll suggest uncompressed ext2. Depending on the > FTL, something else may be more reasonable instead.
FWIW, Ubuntu and "others which shall remain nameless" use a unionfs combining a read-only squashfs for the system code with a writeable uncompressed ext2 filesystem. This seems to combine the best of both worlds, and upgrades just involve swapping out the squashfs file. --scott -- ( http://cscott.net/ ) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel