Re: UBIFS was Re: Compressed file system for SD?

2008-10-13 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Am Monday 13 October 2008 02:14:06 schrieb nickd: 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

Compressed file system for SD?

2008-10-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
The jffs filesystem used on the NAND is compressing, which is great for our use case. For the SD that would also be very desirable (especially with the provided 512MB µSD), but it seems that ext3 is the filesystem of choice there. Has someone tried to use a compressing filesystem there?

Re: Compressed file system for SD?

2008-10-12 Thread joakim
Hey, great to see you here Stefan! The race for Emacs 23 on the Freerunner is on! Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The jffs filesystem used on the NAND is compressing, which is great for our use case. For the SD that would also be very desirable (especially with the provided 512MB

UBIFS was Re: Compressed file system for SD?

2008-10-12 Thread nickd
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

Re: UBIFS was Re: Compressed file system for SD?

2008-10-12 Thread Lorn Potter
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

Re: UBIFS was Re: Compressed file system for SD?

2008-10-12 Thread nickd
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