Subject: Re: OS Software for the $100 World Computer (NetBSD) (fwd)
To: Mike Cheponis <mac@Wireless.Com>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/08/2005 16:09:00
On 8-Dec-05, at 4:01 PM, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> The #1 challenge for NetBSD is that, as far as I know, none of the
> BSD's
> have an equivalent to the Linux jffs2 (journalling flash file system,
> V2) file system found in Linux: the machine is flash based, and wear
> leveling essential for general purpose use. I recommend the BSD
> systems
> pool effort here if they can; this lack leaves *BSD maybe 2 years
> behind
> Linux on one really key technology, somewhat to my surprise (I only
> discovered this last week). Googling for "flash file system" on
> the BSD
> portal was more than a bit disappointing.
Clearly we wouldn't want anything equivalent to Linux JFFS2. We'd
want something that actually worked well. (I work with JFFS2 all day
long.)