How stable is jffs2 summarize option?

[Thorsten Mühlfelder]

Am Tuesday 01 June 2010 11:33:08 schrieb David Woodhouse:
> On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:26 +0200, Thorsten Mühlfelder wrote:
> > and what do you think about switching to yaffs2? I know it is developed
> > elsewhere, but it seems to be a good alternative to jffs2+summary and
> > probably switching is easier than to ubifs.
>
> Why would you think that switching to something that isn't part of the
> Linux kernel would be easier than switching to ubifs? That seems... odd.

Because getting yaffs2 source and patching the kernel only was 2 commands and 
no single additional tool is needed. Just boot from USB stick and run:
flash_eraseall /dev/mtd1
mount -t yaffs2 /dev/mtdblock1 /mnt/device-root
tar xvf root-filesystem.tar -C /mnt/device-root

;-)