linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/10] Add yaffs2 file system: Fifth patchset

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Date:	Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:45:50 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Charles Manning <manningc2@...rix.gen.nz>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	ryan@...ewatersys.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] Add yaffs2 file system:  Fifth patchset

Hi!

> > remember you can get media from all over the place. 
> 
> No you can't. This is a flash file system for soldered down flash. I think 
> that is a fundamental place where your understanding of what yaffs is falls 
> down.

That needs to go into Documentation/ somewhere...

...so you can't for example prepare yaffs image on host before copying
it to target? What is gained by not having on-disk format?

> > If you can't encode these difference in your on-disk format it has
> > absolutely no business going into mainline with this format.
> 
> Yaffs does not really have an on-disk format like most other fs do.

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