From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.105.134] helo=mgw-mx09.nokia.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.68 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1L3Saj-0007TR-2Y for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:46:21 +0000 Subject: Re: Query on UBIFS usage From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Ankur Maheshwari In-Reply-To: <8fbbfb6b0811201021l3f3d9aabr90d9c54b18555cfc@mail.gmail.com> References: <8fbbfb6b0811201021l3f3d9aabr90d9c54b18555cfc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:44:18 +0200 Message-Id: <1227260658.3954.46.camel@sauron> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: ankur_maheshwari@in.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Reply-To: dedekind@infradead.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 23:51 +0530, Ankur Maheshwari wrote: > 1. I read in UBIFS FAQ that it can not be used as NFS file system. I > am bit confuse with the statement. You cannot export UBIFS via NFS so far, because we did not implement NFS support inside UBIFS. In other words, UBIFS cannot be NFS server's backing FS. But we are planning to implement this, we just do not have time and do not need this. > Is it possible that I use UBIFS on one of Flash partition and at the > same time do NFS (root fs mount as NFS) boot. Is there any issue with > it. No, in this case you mount some other file system via NFS, co you are an NFS client. It should be fine. > 2. Can I use UBIFS with other Flash filesystem (like SquashFS-read > only) on other partition of same flash. Of course. > 3. What will be better, keep using SquashFS(RO) or switch to UBIFS. Everything depends on your needs/requirements/etc. --=20 Best regards, Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90= =D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC)