From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755724Ab0CXL2w (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:28:52 -0400 Received: from tac.ki.iif.hu ([193.6.222.43]:43104 "EHLO tac.ki.iif.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755354Ab0CXL2v (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:28:51 -0400 From: Ferenc Wagner To: Peter Korsgaard Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: direct MTD support for SquashFS References: <87vdcwv139.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <87ljdsibqe.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> <87r5nhziss.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <8739zqpxxw.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> <4BA9A1BB.4000105@lougher.demon.co.uk> <87y6hii5wq.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:28:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87y6hii5wq.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (Peter Korsgaard's message of "Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:35:01 +0100") Message-ID: <871vfam00k.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Korsgaard writes: >>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip Lougher writes: > > Phillip> BTW as a comparison, I have added MTD support to Squashfs > Phillip> twice in the past, *with* bad block support. The latest has a > Phillip> diff patch of ~500 lines, with far less complexity and code > Phillip> changes necessary. > > Again, what kind of size reduction can we expect from getting rid of > the block layer? My size-optimized OpenWRT vmlinux shrank ~170 kB after disabling CONFIG_BLOCK. Similarly for the memory consumption. -- Regards, Feri.