squashfs and NAND flash

[Josh Boyer]

On 4/28/06, Phillip Lougher <phillip at lougher.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > There is gain in providing a generic mechansim that block type
> > filesystems can use to do this though.  Simple economics are going to
> > drive more devices to have NAND parts than NOR, so something needs to
> > eventually fill this gap.
> >
>
> I think I was maybe a little unclear as to what I meant.  I think a
> generic mechanism that block filesystems could use would be very useful.
>   What I meant was providing NAND support in Squashfs would generate a
> lot more support requests and require more maintenance.  Unfortunately,
> I don't have the resources to do this.

Oh, sure.  That's understandable.  You should be busy trying to get
squashfs into mainline ;)

josh