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From: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>
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To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On 5/12/05, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:57 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > In principle, both the block device abstraction and the mtd
> > abstraction fit your bill.  But jffs2 doesn't, so no in-kernel fs
> > could make use of a xip-aware mtd abstraction.
> >
> > Patching jffs2 for xip looks like a major effort, at best, and utterly
> > insane at worst.  I'd prefer not to go down that path.
> 
> You and me both. The time has definitely come to recognise that JFFS2
> needs replacing ;)

I'd say yaffs seems to be a good one. 

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