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Subject: Re: Flash File Systems or Translation Layers?
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At Thu, 18 May 2006 10:23:01 +1000,
Benno Rice wrote:
> 
> gnn@freebsd.org wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I thought about doing a port of jffs2.  Probably a rewrite actually, so 
> we can have a non-GPL version.  It's waiting on me getting to the point 
> where I need it though. =)

Yes, one of my friends who is not on this list pointed me to jffs2,
but we would definitely need a non-GPL rewrite I suspect.

Later,
George