From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: Is it good for a PDA fs? Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 10:50:57 +0400 Message-ID: <20020623105057.A5090@namesys.com> References: <20020622115207.E23457@gerf.org> <20020622175746.I13075@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <3D14B8E9.4020808@namesys.com> <20020622230748.A1981@namesys.com> <3D14E47E.5080300@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D14E47E.5080300@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Hans Reiser Cc: Chris Dukes , The Doctor What , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello! On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:56:30AM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > >CF is different story. They fight level of wearing in underlying layer. > Meaning that they hide it in the device driver, and the FS does not need > to be aware of it? Yes. Otherwise CF media would be pretty much useless in conjunction with VFAT. > >And you can format CF with reiserfs without any problems > >But do not expect that windows or digital cameras would understand > >that ;) > >Also - in conjunctions with PDAs - reiserfs is quite memory (RAM) hungry, > >so using it on 32M ram box is somewhat questionable. > >And static 32M journal (that's 13% off your CF size, btw) > Our journal resizing patch is waiting for the next pre1 to go in, yes? Yes. > Regardless of all of this, it really would not surprise me if a > filesystem design for CFs does a better job than we do at CFs..... I am not aware of any CF-centric filesystem. Because CF represents itself as IDE device. Directly accessible flash is a different matter of course. > >Building ARM kernels is easy. > >I always build kernels for my ARM toys myself. > >and I bet that Zaurus kernel is based off some -rmk kernel with > >may be minor patches (sources of these should be available at Sharp > >of course). > >So getting (making) new kernel should be trivial. > I think I probably care more about downloading and trying the latest > kalendar than installing a new kernel on it.;-) It is nice to have ssh Yes, exactly. I do not see how you (or any other user) would benefit from using anything but vfat in CF, but disadvantages are pretty clear. Bye, Oleg