Re: Looking ahead

[Bucky Katz <bucky%picovex.com@localhost>]

"Yiang Han" <yiangh%juniper.net@localhost> writes:

> I have interesting to start porting the MTD and JFFS2 from linux into
> the FreeBSD system, Does anybody have any suggestions or tips on it? Or
> is there any resources about it?  As I am a newer on BSD file system. It
> seems the BSD file system is kind complicated.
>
>

My suggestion is: Don't.  The MTD developers have abandoned JFFS2
(again) because of its inherent performance issues. There's a log
based file system being worked on as a replacement for JFFS2, but it's
a long way from being stable.

MTD may be a good approach for NOR, but its NAND support is an
afterthought and has some design problems.

Oh, and it's GPL-ed code, so you'd have to maintain it outside the
NetBSD tree, I assume.