Subject: RE: NetBSD usage in embedded environments
To: Kamal R Prasad <kamalrpr@in.ibm.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/03/2003 09:19:35
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Kamal R Prasad wrote:

> >NetBSD is an excellent operating system... but there are some improvments
> to
> >make it fit better in the embedded space:
> >1. Journaled flash file system
>
> think a journaled filesystem is a misfit for an embedded device in the
> first place.
> further all the more so on a  flash device which has little space compared
> to a hard disk.

Put a disk in it, and you want a journalized file system. Not all embedded
devices are diskless.

Take care,

Bill