qtmoko v35

[giacomo 'giotti' mariani]

Hello everyone,
> [...]
>> >  We had problems with ubifs too. Gennady talked to ubifs devs and they
>> >  would like to see the kernel message and nandump so they could try
>> >  too look into it.
>> >  
>> >  It seems that ubifs is not as stable as jffs2 which was 100% perfect.
>> >  Only problem is that jffs2 cant do mmap and apt-get does not work
>> >  without mmap.
>> >  
>> >  Jffs2 will never do mmap (according to the main devel it's a lot of
>> >  complex work because of compression) so we have these options now:
>> >  
>> >  * live with bugged ubifs
>> >  * patch apt-get so that it works without mmap
>> >  * use the old trick with /var/cache/apt on tmpfs, but this has
>> >  problems with limited memory and bigger upates/upgrades might not work
>> >  * use some other flash filesystem - yaffs seems but does not support
>> >  compression, i havent looked at logfs yet
>> >  
>> >  So any suggestions?
> We could use jffs2 if we link /var/cache/apt to a tiny partition on SD.
> Then while SD is in huge updates will work, if SD is removed ->  no apt,
> but still a runing system.
In my opinion ubifs is a great improvement: it looks faster than jffs2 
and less memory consumer than jffs2.
It should be used, if possible. So I suggest to use it and to send 
kernel messages and nandump to ubifs guys in order to help them.

And that's what I'm doing ;-)

Cheers
     Giacomo

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