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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] jffs2: implement mount option parsing and
	compression overriding
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:22:28 +0300
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On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 18:15 -0700, Andres Salomon wrote:
> Currently jffs2 has compile-time constants (and .config options)
> controlling whether or not the various compression/decompression
> drivers are built in and enabled.  This is fine for embedded
> systems, but it clashes with distribution kernels.  Distro kernels
> tend to turn on everything; this causes OpenFirmware to fall
> over, as it understands ZLIB-compressed inodes.  Booting a kernel
> that has LZO compression enabled, writing to the boot partition,
> and then rebooting causes OFW to fail to read the kernel from
> the filesystem.  This is because LZO compression has priority
> when writing new data to jffs2, if LZO is enabled.
> 
> This patch adds mount option parsing, and a single supported
> option ("compr=none").  This adds the flexibility of being
> able to specify which compressor overrides on a per-superblock
> basis.  For now, we can simply disable compression;
> additional flexibility coming soon.

Pushed both to l2-mtd-2.6.git, thanks!

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy