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Re: JFFS2 alternative
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>
- Cc: eCos Disuss <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:46:48 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] JFFS2 alternative
- References: <c09652430906292347u624c3d93u4724bf1b56b9df40@mail.gmail.com>
Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> JFFS2 is fine for smaller file systems, but it breaks down completely
> on large file systems.
>
What do you mean "it breaks down completely"?
> Does anyone know of viable eCos alternatives to JFFS2?
>
> LogFS is GPL v2 without exception, so that would make the application
> linked with eCos GPL. Ditto for UBIFS.
>
> I guess it's no good to create a loadable eCos module either. Even
> if that would allow our application to work with any filing system. It would
> be a poorly veiled attempt at circumventing GPL, wouldn't it?
>
> GPL is problematic because the work in question is under NDA.
>
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