Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:45:50 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ryan@bluewatersys.com,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] Add yaffs2 file system:  Fifth patchset
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Hi!

> > remember you can get media from all over the place. 
> 
> No you can't. This is a flash file system for soldered down flash. I think 
> that is a fundamental place where your understanding of what yaffs is falls 
> down.

That needs to go into Documentation/ somewhere...

...so you can't for example prepare yaffs image on host before copying
it to target? What is gained by not having on-disk format?

> > If you can't encode these difference in your on-disk format it has
> > absolutely no business going into mainline with this format.
> 
> Yaffs does not really have an on-disk format like most other fs do.

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