UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-10 Thread Deepak Saxena
Hi, I have created an initial UBIFS 8.2 image that can be used for testing and playing with. See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/UBIFS_initial_experiments for information on how this was created and some of my intial notes. If you just want to download and run: * Make sure your XO has security

Re: UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have created an initial UBIFS 8.2 image that can be used for testing > and playing with. Tried it here on a B3. > * UBI is taking an extremely long time (~50s) to attach to the M

Re: UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Also found this, but even then it booted faster into Sugar than the XO > with jffs2, but that one had the jffs2 gc thread taking the cpu, so... > Haven't seen yet any other difference worth of mention, though. Would be pretty interesting to hear a comparison of boot times from a k

Re: UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-10 Thread John Watlington
at 6:41 AM, Deepak Saxena wrote: > Hi, > > I have created an initial UBIFS 8.2 image that can be used for testing > and playing with. > > See http://wiki.laptop.org/go/UBIFS_initial_experiments > for information on how this was created and some of my intial notes. > >

Re: UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-10 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Oct 10 2008, at 16:26, John Watlington was caught saying: > > Still trying to reproduce the first weirdness I saw, but I've already > run into pretty much the same problem with my standard test. > > I installed UbiFS as indicated. > > I installed 16 files of size 32 MB in the root partition. > d

Re: UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-10 Thread John Watlington
On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Deepak Saxena wrote: > On Oct 10 2008, at 16:26, John Watlington was caught saying: >> >> Still trying to reproduce the first weirdness I saw, but I've already >> run into pretty much the same problem with my standard test. >> >> I installed UbiFS as indicated. >> >>

Updated UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-13 Thread Deepak Saxena
Hi, I have updated the UBIFS 8.2 image on d.l.o with a new kernel that includes various backports from kernel.org. One major change that is noticeable is that the free space calculation reports 921MiB free instead of 822MiB due to improved df reporting. I've also disabled debug messages

Re: UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-16 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
I would also like to comment this: John Watlington said: > I installed 16 files of size 32 MB in the root partition. > df indicated around 50 MB free. This if fine. Please, do not expect df to provide precise reporting for you. This is not the case in JFFS2, but it is more of an issue in UBIFS. P

Re: UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-16 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Hi, I've just subscribed to the list and do not have older mails in my mailbox. Found this in the archives: John Watlington said: > I started a loop of reading two files and comparing them, > then writing two 10MB files, reading them back (and > comparing them), then deleting them. Repeat ad-inf

Re: Updated UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-14 Thread Erik Garrison
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 01:26:32PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: > > Hi, > > I have updated the UBIFS 8.2 image on d.l.o with a > new kernel that includes various backports from kernel.org. > One major change that is noticeable is that the free space > calculation reports 9

Re: Updated UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-14 Thread John Watlington
I get 898,452 KiB free, on several machines. How did you get 921,000 KiB free ? wad On Oct 13, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Deepak Saxena wrote: > > Hi, > > I have updated the UBIFS 8.2 image on d.l.o with a > new kernel that includes various backports from kernel.org. > One ma

Re: Updated UBIFS 8.2 image

2008-10-14 Thread Deepak Saxena
On Oct 14 2008, at 15:13, John Watlington was caught saying: > > I get 898,452 KiB free, on several machines. > How did you get 921,000 KiB free ? My bad, accidently used 'df -H' instead of '-h' in my initial check. So we now have ~878MiB available instead of 822. That's better but that is still