Re: [PATCH 00/25] staging: erofs: introduce erofs file system

Christian Kujau
2018-07-27T00:32:26Z

On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, Gao Xiang wrote:
> EROFS file system is a read-only file system with compression
> support designed for certain devices (especially embeded
> devices) with very limited physical memory and lots of memory

Out of curiousity, and as Richard already asked[0] - what about existing
file system, why can't they be used or extended instead of introducing yet
another file system into the kernel? JFFS2? UBIFS? CramFs? SquashFS?
ROMFS? F2FS? YAFFS?

Christian.

[0] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152783930418348&w=2
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