>>>>> "Ferenc" == Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx> writes: Ferenc> Hi, Ferenc> In embedded systems, SquashFS over MTD would be a considerable Ferenc> win, as that would permit configuring without CONFIG_BLOCK. Ferenc> Please find attached a naive patch against 2.6.33 for this. It Ferenc> does not handle bad MTD blocks, that could be handled by gluebi Ferenc> (once you're willing to take the UBI overhead), or by a custom Ferenc> solution later. Ferenc> For now, 2.6.34 gained pluggable decompressors, so this patch Ferenc> does not apply anymore, though the main idea holds. My Ferenc> questions: is the community interested in integrating something Ferenc> like this, should this patch transformed into something Ferenc> acceptable, or am I a total lunatic? I don't know a thing Ferenc> about filesystem development, but willing to learn and Ferenc> refactor. Comments welcome. Nice, I have been thinking about that as well. What kind of size savings are you getting with this? CC'ing linux-embedded as this might be of interest there as well. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
