From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 16:21:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D841116AF9C for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:21:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mrout2-b.corp.dcn.yahoo.com (mrout2-b.corp.dcn.yahoo.com [216.109.112.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 292D443D6D for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 16:21:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from minion.local.neville-neil.com (proxy8.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.48.13]) by mrout2-b.corp.dcn.yahoo.com (8.13.6/8.13.4/y.out) with ESMTP id k4HGKqLO045060 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 09:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:27:21 -0700 Message-ID: From: gnn@freebsd.org To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.50 (i386-apple-darwin8.5.1) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Flash File Systems or Translation Layers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:21:05 -0000 Howdy, So, a few of us have talked off list of the need for a flash file system or translation layer for FreeBSD in order to better target the kind of boards we want to support. The one lead I had was to a poorly written, binary only solution with nasty licensing. That is, it was a dead end. Does anyone know of anything that exists now that we might coopt or have the knowledge to do this right/well? Later, George