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
next prev parent 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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