Re: squashfs and NAND flash

Josh Boyer
2006-04-28T12:36:40Z

On 4/28/06, Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > There is gain in providing a generic mechansim that block type
> > filesystems can use to do this though. Simple economics are going to
> > drive more devices to have NAND parts than NOR, so something needs to
> > eventually fill this gap.
> >
>
> I think I was maybe a little unclear as to what I meant. I think a
> generic mechanism that block filesystems could use would be very useful.
> What I meant was providing NAND support in Squashfs would generate a
> lot more support requests and require more maintenance. Unfortunately,
> I don't have the resources to do this.

Oh, sure. That's understandable. You should be busy trying to get
squashfs into mainline ;)

josh