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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: coywolf@lovecn.org
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 13:31:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050601113104.GA29116@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2cd57c90050601023358417bbd@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 1 June 2005 17:33:29 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> On 5/12/05, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:57 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > > In principle, both the block device abstraction and the mtd
> > > abstraction fit your bill.  But jffs2 doesn't, so no in-kernel fs
> > > could make use of a xip-aware mtd abstraction.
> > >
> > > Patching jffs2 for xip looks like a major effort, at best, and utterly
> > > insane at worst.  I'd prefer not to go down that path.
> > 
> > You and me both. The time has definitely come to recognise that JFFS2
> > needs replacing ;)
> 
> I'd say yaffs seems to be a good one. 

Not if you care about XIP.  Yaffs won't run on NOR flashes and XIP
won't work on NAND.

Jörn

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-01 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-11 14:29 [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support Carsten Otte
2005-05-11 16:19 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-11 16:35   ` Carsten Otte
2005-05-12  8:57     ` Jörn Engel
2005-05-12  9:10       ` Carsten Otte
2005-05-12  9:43       ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-01  9:33         ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-06-01 11:31           ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2005-06-01 10:12 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-06-01 12:06   ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-01 13:39     ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-01 14:03       ` Carsten Otte
2005-06-01 14:10         ` Jörn Engel

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