How stable is jffs2 summarize option?

[David Woodhouse]

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:50 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Yes, if ubifs doesn't fit, perhaps have a look at the recently added
> logfs?
> 
>     Jocke
> 
> BTW, I once tried JFFS2 summary and it didn't make much of a difference for us.

Did you use 'sumtool' after creating your images? For reasons which are
now lost in the mists of time, that support wasn't just added directly
to mkfs.jffs2.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
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