[U-Boot-Users] jffs2

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20030306093601.GF16290 at pengutronix.de> you wrote:
> 
> Hmm, but you have to agree with yourself on a maximum kernel partition
> size first. How do you handle this? Are you sure that even if 2.6 is out
> there will be enough space? 

I handle it by allowing for partition sizes to change over time.

> You may have guessed it - the rootfs is indeed mounted r/o on our
> system, due to the reason you mentioned. But I in general would like to
> be able to mount it r/w in case of maintainance or during development.
> So jffs2 would surely comes close to what I would like to see. 

For a R/O filesystem cramfs or squashfs seem to be much faster.

> Well, just to shock you: we have a SQL database which holds our config
> data :-) But it has it's own jffs2 data partition. 

Great. Which one?

> Yes, but I don't print out the archive each and every day and put it
> under my pillow ;-) 

grep?


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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