Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Korsgaard <> | Subject | Re: RFC: direct MTD support for SquashFS | Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:26:33 +0100 |
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>>>>> "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
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