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Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Tue Jul 8 16:03:00 CEST 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
| On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:35:13 +0200 "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer"
| <mickey at vanille-media.de> babbled:
|
|> Am Dienstag 08 Juli 2008 12:45:12 schrieb Carsten Haitzler:
|>> which brings me back to... we need a way to avoid jffs2 compression for
|>> some types of files. eg: *.jpg, *.png, *.gif, *.edj, *.mp3 ... :)
|> We should consider one of the alternatives to jffs2. The jury is
still out on
|> yaffs2 and ubifs is now in mainline.
|
| definitely. i'm no expert here... so.. what do people say? jffs2 works
.. but
| does have performance issues. it needs the ability to be able to be
taught to
| not compress some kinds of files. do we have anything of the sort out
there?

Jffs2 is just a symptom of writing direct to raw NAND...  we don't need
to deal with these unusual formats when our storage is SD Card.  In that
future, we use the very well characterized ext2 or ext3.

- -Andy
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