Re: ext2 on flash memory

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Jun 11 2007 - 20:17:47 EST


On Monday 11 June 2007, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Also, ext2 provides a nice feature other filesystems lack: xip.
> Especially, if a pendrive is used as a rootfs for a small device.

Well, xip cannot work on NAND flash media, including USB pen drives,
because the data is not mapped into the addressable memory space,
so that is not really an interesting argument.

Arnd <><
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