On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 07:46:51PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Zan Lynx wrote: > > Or maybe its cheap and slow flash. In that case I think your only > > hope is to make all the code as small as possible and/or find a > > different flash filesystem that does not have to read so much of the > > device to mount. Perhaps use a read-only compressed filesystem for > > the system binaries and reflash it for software upgrades. Only init > > and mount the writable flash for user-storable data well after > > system boot has finished. > > Fwiw, logfs claims to mount quickly, but I haven't heard much about it > in recent months and http://logfs.org/logfs/ implies it's not really > stable yet. But maybe if you're working on a prototype that doesn't > matter so much. Is logfs ready for production in the meantime? Last time I checked it was still more or less Jörn's pet project and ubifs seemed much more mature. rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
