RFC: direct MTD support for SquashFS
Ferenc Wagner
wferi at niif.hu
Wed Mar 24 07:28:43 EDT 2010
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk> writes:
>>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip Lougher <phillip at lougher.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> Phillip> BTW as a comparison, I have added MTD support to Squashfs
> Phillip> twice in the past, *with* bad block support. The latest has a
> Phillip> diff patch of ~500 lines, with far less complexity and code
> Phillip> changes necessary.
>
> Again, what kind of size reduction can we expect from getting rid of
> the block layer?
My size-optimized OpenWRT vmlinux shrank ~170 kB after disabling
CONFIG_BLOCK. Similarly for the memory consumption.
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Regards,
Feri.
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