From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
To: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/25] staging: erofs: introduce erofs file system
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:25:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.999.1807261707460.11672@trent.utfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1532607728-103372-1-git-send-email-gaoxiang25@huawei.com>
On Thu, 26 Jul 2018, Gao Xiang wrote:
> EROFS file system is a read-only file system with compression
> support designed for certain devices (especially embeded
> devices) with very limited physical memory and lots of memory
Out of curiousity, and as Richard already asked[0] - what about existing
file system, why can't they be used or extended instead of introducing yet
another file system into the kernel? JFFS2? UBIFS? CramFs? SquashFS?
ROMFS? F2FS? YAFFS?
Christian.
[0] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152783930418348&w=2
--
BOFH excuse #247:
Due to Federal Budget problems we have been forced to cut back on the number of users able to access the system at one time. (namely none allowed....)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-27 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-31 11:06 [NOMERGE] [RFC PATCH 00/12] erofs: introduce erofs file system Gao Xiang
2018-06-01 7:48 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-06-01 9:11 ` Gao Xiang
2018-06-01 9:28 ` Richard Weinberger
2018-06-01 11:16 ` Gao Xiang
2018-06-07 10:26 ` Pavel Machek
2018-07-27 0:55 ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-07-27 0:57 ` Joey Pabalinas
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 00/25] staging: " Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 01/25] staging: erofs: add on-disk layout Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 02/25] staging: erofs: add erofs in-memory stuffs Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 03/25] staging: erofs: add super block operations Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 04/25] staging: erofs: add raw address_space operations Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 05/25] staging: erofs: add inode operations Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 06/25] staging: erofs: add directory operations Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 07/25] staging: erofs: add namei functions Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 08/25] staging: erofs: update Kconfig and Makefile Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 09/25] staging: erofs: introduce xattr & acl support Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 10/25] staging: erofs: support special inode Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 11/25] staging: erofs: introduce error injection infrastructure Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 12/25] staging: erofs: support tracepoint Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 13/25] staging: erofs: <linux/tagptr.h>: introduce tagged pointer Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 14/25] staging: erofs: introduce pagevec for unzip subsystem Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 15/25] staging: erofs: add erofs_map_blocks_iter Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:21 ` [PATCH 16/25] staging: erofs: add erofs_allocpage Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:22 ` [PATCH 17/25] staging: erofs: globalize prepare_bio and __submit_bio Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:22 ` [PATCH 18/25] staging: erofs: introduce a customized LZ4 decompression Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:22 ` [PATCH 19/25] staging: erofs: add a generic z_erofs VLE decompressor Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:22 ` [PATCH 20/25] staging: erofs: introduce superblock registration Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:22 ` [PATCH 21/25] staging: erofs: introduce erofs shrinker Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:22 ` [PATCH 22/25] staging: erofs: introduce workstation for decompression Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:22 ` [PATCH 23/25] staging: erofs: introduce VLE decompression support Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:22 ` [PATCH 24/25] staging: erofs: introduce cached decompression Gao Xiang
2018-07-26 12:22 ` [PATCH 25/25] staging: erofs: add a TODO and update MAINTAINERS for staging Gao Xiang
2018-07-28 7:10 ` [PATCH] staging: erofs: fix a compile warning of Z_EROFS_VLE_VMAP_ONSTACK_PAGES Gao Xiang
2018-07-28 10:43 ` Chao Yu
2018-07-29 5:34 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: erofs: fix compile error without built-in decompression support Gao Xiang
2018-07-29 5:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: erofs: fix conditional uninitialized `pcn' in z_erofs_map_blocks_iter Gao Xiang
2018-07-30 1:51 ` [PATCH] staging: erofs: use the wrapped PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO instead of open code Gao Xiang
2018-07-30 6:58 ` Chao Yu
2018-08-01 6:38 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: erofs: add the missing break in z_erofs_map_blocks_iter Gao Xiang
2018-08-01 6:38 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: erofs: remove a redundant marco in xattr Gao Xiang
2018-08-01 9:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: erofs: add the missing break in z_erofs_map_blocks_iter Dan Carpenter
2018-08-01 9:19 ` Gao Xiang
2018-08-01 9:36 ` [PATCH RESEND " Gao Xiang
2018-08-01 11:36 ` Dan Carpenter
2018-08-01 12:08 ` Gao Xiang
2018-07-30 2:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: erofs: fix conditional uninitialized `pcn' " Chao Yu
2018-07-30 2:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: erofs: fix compile error without built-in decompression support Chao Yu
2018-07-30 2:32 ` Gao Xiang
2018-07-30 3:07 ` Chao Yu
2018-07-30 3:55 ` Gao Xiang
2018-07-27 0:25 ` Christian Kujau [this message]
2018-07-27 1:39 ` [PATCH 00/25] staging: erofs: introduce erofs file system Gao Xiang
2018-07-27 1:56 ` Gao Xiang
2018-07-28 7:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-07-28 9:33 ` Gao Xiang
2018-07-28 10:34 ` Chao Yu
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