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From: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>
To: DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext2 on flash memory
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:09:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070612210943.GA27509@metaxa.reflex> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070611101319.GA14284@DervishD>

In gmane.linux.kernel, you wrote:
>     I was wondering: is there any reason not to use ext2 on an USB
> pendrive? Really my question is not only about USB pendrives, but any
> device whose storage is flash based. Let's assume that the device has a
> good quality flash memory with wear leveling and the like...

Have a look at the UBI layer. It adds wear-levelling to MTD devices.  Of
course, to use it on a regular blockdev like this you'll have to do
something like usb-storage (sd) -> block2mtd -> ubi -> jffs2. But it can
be done afaik.

Jason

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-12 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-11 10:13 ext2 on flash memory DervishD
2007-06-11 11:11 ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-06-11 11:57   ` USB remote control missing keycodes Islam Amer
2007-06-11 15:02     ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-13 14:08       ` Islam Amer
2007-06-13 14:58         ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-13 15:17           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-06-13 15:44             ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-13 15:58               ` Islam Amer
2007-06-13 16:17                 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-14 12:19                   ` Islam Amer
2007-06-14 12:30                     ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-15 10:15                       ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-15 10:51                         ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-17 10:57                           ` Islam Amer
2007-06-18 11:42                             ` Jiri Kosina
2007-06-15 17:55     ` Phillip Susi
2007-06-11 17:36   ` ext2 on flash memory DervishD
2007-06-13 13:16     ` Ph. Marek
2007-06-13 23:02       ` DervishD
2007-06-14  5:16         ` Ph. Marek
2007-06-11 14:58 ` alan
2007-06-11 17:42   ` DervishD
2007-06-11 19:27     ` Juergen Beisert
2007-06-13 13:48       ` DervishD
2007-06-14 19:36         ` Jan Knutar
2007-06-14 20:07           ` DervishD
2007-06-11 23:53 ` Kevin K
2007-06-12  0:35   ` Kevin Bowling
2007-06-12  1:18     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-06-13 13:44       ` DervishD
2007-06-12  7:53     ` Juergen Beisert
2007-06-12 13:29       ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-06-12 16:46       ` Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
2007-06-13 13:43   ` DervishD
2007-06-12 21:09 ` Jason Lunz [this message]
2007-06-13  6:49   ` Juergen Beisert
2007-06-14 17:45 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-14 18:22   ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-14 20:20     ` DervishD
2007-06-14 20:43       ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-15 16:20         ` DervishD
2007-06-15 16:27           ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-14 20:17   ` DervishD
2007-06-14 20:38     ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-15 16:16       ` DervishD
2007-06-15 16:36         ` Jörn Engel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-11 11:53 Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-06-12  0:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-14 16:38 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-14 17:19   ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2007-06-14 17:46     ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-14 22:46       ` DervishD
2007-06-15 12:08         ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-15 16:22           ` DervishD
2007-06-15 16:22             ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-18 11:31               ` DervishD
2007-06-14 21:40 Tomasz Chmielewski

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