On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Matias Bjorling <m@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/24/2014 08:08 PM, David Lang wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Matias Bjorling wrote: >> >>> On 03/21/2014 02:06 AM, Joe Thornber wrote: >>>> Hi Matias, >>>> >>>> This looks really interesting and I'd love to get involved. Do you >>>> have any recommendations for what hardware I should pick up? >>> >>> Hi Joe, >>> >>> The most easily available platform is OpenSSD >>> (http://www.openssd-project.org). It's a little old, but still very >>> functional. When there's a good firmware implementation, I think it will >>> be easier for the custom SSD vendor's to jump on board with their own >>> firmware. >> >> Is this something that would make sense to use for accessing the NAND >> flash that's being used on routers nowdays? Talking with the OpenWRT >> folks, they are having trouble supporting those devices because the >> flash may contain defects and squashfs doesn't work in such an >> environment. This appears to be the one remaining problem preventing a >> lot of new routers from working. >> >> If this can work as a shim layer between the hardware and the filesystem >> for OpenWRT, you would gain a very large userbase rather quickly. > > It's possible and would make sense. However, I'm not sure that its the > best choice. > > From what I can see, OpenWRT routers expose their flash through mtd. > Couldn't UBIFS be a better choice for this, instead of squashfs? Using ubiblock you can also run squashfs ontop of UBI. Hopefully it will be merged in 3.15. -- Thanks, //richard -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
