From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:16:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.convergence.de ([IPv6:::ffff:212.84.236.4]:37343 "EHLO mail.convergence.de") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:16:25 +0100 Received: from [10.1.1.146] (helo=heck) by mail.convergence.de with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.14) id 19SFNv-0002hS-Gm for linux-mips@linux-mips.org; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:16:23 +0200 Received: from js by heck with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19SFNu-0000xT-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:16:22 +0200 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:16:22 +0200 From: Johannes Stezenbach To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Building a stand-alone FS on a very limited flash (newbie question) Message-ID: <20030617121622.GH1215@convergence.de> Mail-Followup-To: Johannes Stezenbach , linux-mips@linux-mips.org References: <20030610131519.47A8BC5FD7@atlas.denx.de> <3EEC9513.80905@galileo.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EEC9513.80905@galileo.co.il> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 2658 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: js@convergence.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Baruch Chaikin wrote: > > Another question is the file system itself. What is the recommendation > here - JFFS, CRAMFS, anything else?... jffs if you need read/write, cramfs or squashfs for read-only. stock cramfs has endianness problems (mkcramfs must run on same endianness as kernel), but patches exist. http://sourceforge.net/projects/squashfs/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/cramfs/ Johannes