From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GAoXd-0001jb-1I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:56:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k79DsNrV001877; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:54:23 GMT Received: from kivasystems.com (mail.kivasystems.com [204.14.67.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k79DsMJS025070 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:54:23 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kivasystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA8A4D7A30D; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:54:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kivasystems.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14937-07; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:54:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.100.4.231] (unknown [10.100.4.231]) by kivasystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9F2D7A2ED; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:54:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44D9E909.8010906@kivasystems.com> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:54:17 -0400 From: Joshua Pollak User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060728) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Kfir Lavi Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] What file system I should use with flash? References: <200608090205.54864.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200608090205.54864.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at kivasystems.com X-Archives-Salt: c69429bd-9200-4479-8518-86deb9435243 X-Archives-Hash: b4a6792fd6de735c2e0e6cef2d6acf77 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 09 August 2006 01:39, Kfir Lavi wrote: > >> I have read about JFFS2 but it is not supported in gentoo (or is it?). >> What will be your recommendations for such filesystem? >> > > if you need rw, then jffs2 or yaffs2 > > jffs2 is prob the easiest route since it's already in the kernel > > i dont know what you mean by "supported" as all you need is userspace > utilities to generate the jffs2 image (in the portage tree as mtd-utils) and > a kernel to mount it (in the mainline kernel) > -mike > Do you use initrd to bootstrap, or do boot loaders like lilo and grub understand jffs2? I've been using ext2 on my CompactFlash simply because I'm too lazy and haven't had time to learn how to use initrd. -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list