From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261318AbVFALbl (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 07:31:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261331AbVFALbl (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 07:31:41 -0400 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198]:9095 "EHLO moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261318AbVFALbe (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2005 07:31:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 13:31:05 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: coywolf@lovecn.org Cc: David Woodhouse , Carsten Otte , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/5] add execute in place support Message-ID: <20050601113104.GA29116@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <428216DF.8070205@de.ibm.com> <1115828389.16187.544.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <42823450.8030007@freenet.de> <20050512085741.GA16361@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1115890981.16187.553.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <2cd57c90050601023358417bbd@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <2cd57c90050601023358417bbd@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 1 June 2005 17:33:29 +0800, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > On 5/12/05, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 10:57 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > > > In principle, both the block device abstraction and the mtd > > > abstraction fit your bill. But jffs2 doesn't, so no in-kernel fs > > > could make use of a xip-aware mtd abstraction. > > > > > > Patching jffs2 for xip looks like a major effort, at best, and utterly > > > insane at worst. I'd prefer not to go down that path. > > > > You and me both. The time has definitely come to recognise that JFFS2 > > needs replacing ;) > > I'd say yaffs seems to be a good one. Not if you care about XIP. Yaffs won't run on NOR flashes and XIP won't work on NAND. Jörn -- When you close your hand, you own nothing. When you open it up, you own the whole world. -- Li Mu Bai in Tiger & Dragon