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? > > David Lang -- 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
