Re: squashfs and NAND flash

Josh Boyer
2006-04-28T01:35:37Z

On 4/27/06, Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> A couple of years ago I did some work making Squashfs work with NAND.
> Because of the inherent unreliability of NAND, and the constant MTD code
> base changes, I decided not to make this work publically available.

Just out of curiosity, did you do this in the filesystem itself or via
a FTL like what has been discussed so far?

> Providing native NAND support in Squashfs represents too much work for
> absolutely no gain. It is unlikely this is going to change in the near
> future.

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.

josh