Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>> Avoid reinventing the wheel. ;-) As far as I understand it, LFS does
>> many of the things like wear-levelling by design. It may require minor
>> adaption, but the principle should be OK. As Garrett pointed out,
>> writing a BSD version of JFFS, that is compatible with the Linux
>> implementation, is a good idea. BTW: JFFS is based on the principles of
>> LFS, AFAIK. You can also think about a BSD version of squashfs. Squashfs
>> is read only but supports compression and is very space efficient. It
>> seems to be easy to implement, so implementing squashfs is a good
>> exercise. You may have a look at OpenWRT, that uses JFFS and squashfs
>> together.
>
> ``Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux''...
>
> Is this like vnd(4) with VND_COMPRESSION?
> (see vndcompress(1) for examples[1])

I don't think so.  vnd is a block device-ish thing, not really a file
system in and of itself.  IIUC squashfs is a filesystem.

    -- Garrett
>
>
>  - Hubert
>
> [1] which reminds me that 'root on vnd' would be nice...


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