Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:25:26 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christian Kujau <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/25] staging: erofs: introduce erofs file system |
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On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, Gao Xiang wrote: > EROFS file system is a read-only file system with compression > support designed for certain devices (especially embeded > devices) with very limited physical memory and lots of memory
Out of curiousity, and as Richard already asked[0] - what about existing file system, why can't they be used or extended instead of introducing yet another file system into the kernel? JFFS2? UBIFS? CramFs? SquashFS? ROMFS? F2FS? YAFFS?
Christian.
[0] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152783930418348&w=2 -- BOFH excuse #247:
Due to Federal Budget problems we have been forced to cut back on the number of users able to access the system at one time. (namely none allowed....)
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