From owner-freebsd-small Sun Apr 30 6:27:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from hydrant.intranova.net (msb-ts-slip10.UMDNJ.EDU [130.219.28.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AD2337BC8B for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 06:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oogali@intranova.net) Received: (qmail 60269 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2000 15:41:07 -0000 Received: from localhost.abuselabs.com (HELO localhost) (missnglnk@127.0.0.1) by localhost.abuselabs.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2000 15:41:06 -0000 Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:41:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Omachonu Ogali To: Mike Wade Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Journaling Flash File System (JFFS) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wouldn't mounting the flash device as read-only achieve the same effect? (No, I don't know much about flash devices, if that was your next question). On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Mike Wade wrote: > It seems there is a journal flash file system available for Linux > now. Information can be obtained from: > > http://www.developer.axis.com/software/jffs/ > > "JFFS is the Journaling Flash File System developed by Axis Communications > in Sweden, aimed at providing a crash/powerdown-safe filesystem for > disk-less embedded devices. It is released under the GPL, and the current > version works for the Linux 2.0 kernel series and memory-mapped > industry-standard flash-memories (aka NOR-flashes)." > > I certainly wouldn't mind seeing something like this for PicoBSD... > > --- > Mike Wade (mwade@cdc.net) > Director of Systems Administration > CDC Internet, Inc. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Omachonu Ogali oogali@intranova.net | | Intranova Networking Group http://tribune.intranova.net | | PGP Key ID: 0xBFE60839 | | PGP Fingerprint: C8 51 14 FD 2A 87 53 D1 E3 AA 12 12 01 93 BD 34 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message