Re: [Consult] our latest kernel and latest Android under arm Samsung S5PV210 with yaffs2 file system

[Chen Gang F T <chen.gang.flying.transformer@gmail.com>]

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于 2013年01月08日 22:53, Theodore Ts'o 写道:

  firstly, thank you for your reply in details.

  :-)

> yaffs2 is not a _standard_ file system for Android.  There may be some
> phones which use it, but the much more common is either FAT (for the
> older phones) or ext4.  The Google AOSP releases for pretty much all
> modern Nexus phones (Galaxy Nexus and newer if I recall correctly,
> certainly for GN, N4, N7, etc.) all use ext4.
> 
  for development, yaffs2 may be not a _standard_ file system for Android.
  but for marketing, it is realy used as a common file system.
  as far as I know:
    some of HTC phone use it.
    some embedded developement board use it.
    it is well known in embedded area (can find many documents about it)


> 
> So if your existing Android device is using yaffs2, you'll need to
> integrate yaffs2, since yaff2 is not in the upstream kernel.  As far
> as hardware support, it will depend on the specifics of your
> development board, ...
>

  thank you for your suggestions.
  I will integrate yaffs2 to my current using kernel.


> ..., Others hopefully on this list will be able to answer it.
> 
> 
  welcome any members to reply, thanks.


  and additional consult:
    is it suitable to integrate yaffs2 into upstream kernel ?

  :-)


  thanks.

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Chen Gang

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