How stable is jffs2 summarize option?

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 15:03 +0200, Thorsten Mühlfelder wrote:
> to reduce boot time of a device I want to use the jffs2 summarize option on my 
> root file system. Currently 'm using Linux 2.6.24 on that specific device and 
> the summarize option is marked as "experimental", so I wonder if it is stable 
> enough for a productive system?
> Are there any well known devices that use this option, too?
> Do I have to use a newer kernel version?

There are other reasons why you should update from 2.6.24 if you're
using JFFS2, but I don't think the summary code has changed much since
then. The only reason it was still marked as 'experimental' is because I
wanted to optimise the on-medium format.

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