[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I've been looking into booting from the sdcard and was wondering why >> none of the "how to's" suggest formatting the card with jffs2. >> There's >> lots of debate between using ext2 or ext3, but nothing on using >> jffs2. >> Is there a simple reason for this I'm missing? > > JFFS2 is designed to be used on a raw flash device. SD cards have a > controller inside that hides the access to the raw flash and deals > with > things like write levelling, that JFFS2 would otherwise have to do in > software.
Yes, as Ed says, jffs2 would serve no purpose for an SD card. Besides, can you imagine how long it would take to process a 16GB card into memory every mount? :shudder: _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
