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From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
To: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: direct MTD support for SquashFS
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:26:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljdsibqe.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdcwv139.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> (Ferenc Wagner's message of "Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:38:02 +0100")

>>>>> "Ferenc" == Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> writes:

 Ferenc> Hi,

 Ferenc> In embedded systems, SquashFS over MTD would be a considerable
 Ferenc> win, as that would permit configuring without CONFIG_BLOCK.
 Ferenc> Please find attached a naive patch against 2.6.33 for this.  It
 Ferenc> does not handle bad MTD blocks, that could be handled by gluebi
 Ferenc> (once you're willing to take the UBI overhead), or by a custom
 Ferenc> solution later.

 Ferenc> For now, 2.6.34 gained pluggable decompressors, so this patch
 Ferenc> does not apply anymore, though the main idea holds.  My
 Ferenc> questions: is the community interested in integrating something
 Ferenc> like this, should this patch transformed into something
 Ferenc> acceptable, or am I a total lunatic?  I don't know a thing
 Ferenc> about filesystem development, but willing to learn and
 Ferenc> refactor.  Comments welcome.

Nice, I have been thinking about that as well. What kind of size savings
are you getting with this?

CC'ing linux-embedded as this might be of interest there as well.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-16 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-16 13:38 RFC: direct MTD support for SquashFS Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-16 14:26 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2010-03-16 19:18   ` Vitaly Wool
2010-03-18 16:38   ` Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-18 21:40     ` Phillip Lougher
2010-03-18 22:52       ` Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-19  1:05       ` Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-19  7:30         ` Phillip Lougher
2010-03-19 14:12           ` Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-23 11:34       ` Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-23 20:45       ` Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-23 20:47       ` Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-24  5:23         ` Phillip Lougher
2010-03-24  6:35           ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-03-24 11:28             ` Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-24 11:35               ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-03-24 13:48           ` Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-30 13:32             ` [PATCH 0/3] " Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-31  6:35               ` Marco Stornelli
2010-03-30 13:32             ` [PATCH 1/3] squashfs: parametrize decompressors on buffer_head operations Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-30 13:32             ` [PATCH 2/3] squashfs: gather everything block device specific into block.c Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-30 16:50               ` Ferenc Wagner
2010-03-30 13:32             ` [PATCH 3/3] squashfs: add MTD backend Ferenc Wagner

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