17 Apr
2003
17 Apr
'03
4:05 p.m.
On 17 Apr 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
But regardless the basic question is does putting a jffs2 filesystem on the flash start to sound like a good idea? And doing things like hard coding filenames or something into the LinuxBIOS code that looks up information.
seems ok at first glance.
I'm just playing with ideas at this point. And the real question is how to put the information on the flash. Not what should be the content of the individual files. So S-expr is hopefully irrelevant to this bit of conversation. I have yet to be convinced a self describing format does not have unfortunate size overheads.
Yes, but: isn't a file system in some sense an attempt to get a self-describing format?
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