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Re: RE : RE : Is JFFS2 thread-safe?
- From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org>
- To: Vincent Catros <Vincent dot Catros at elios-informatique dot fr>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:24:13 +0000
- Subject: [ECOS] Re: RE : RE : [ECOS] Is JFFS2 thread-safe?
- References: <000701c3b4cd$b07c5720$7407a8c0@figuier>
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 11:03 +0100, Vincent Catros wrote:
> Thanks David,
>
> This is clear for me now.
Good.
In answer to your earlier question about chmod/chown -- they're trivial
to implement. JFFS2 needs to keep track of modes and ownership
internally (in its struct _inode) so that it doesn't corrupt them when
modifying a file system shared with Linux. They should already be
returned by stat(), and the only barrier to allowing you to _change_
modes or ownership from your application is the lack of suitable API for
such purpose. I don't really want to abuse jffs2_setinfo().
The TODO list for JFFS2/eCos is now as follows. I'm hoping someone with
more eCos-clue will pick up some of this:
- Fill in the skeleton gcthread.c so it actually does something.
- Check and possibly fix locking of icache mangling in fs-ecos.c
- Check that os-ecos.h defines 'spin_lock()' to something appropriate.
- Fix unmount of root file system after chdir().
- Fix atomicity of renames. Why was the unlink added before rename?
- Further cleanup -- should the functions in dir-ecos.c take 'struct
dirsearch' instead of various components thereof, or should each of
those functions just be moved inside its only caller in fs-ecos.c?
- Improve mount time by using pointer directly into flash chip instead
of jffs2_flash_read() for the initial scan -- look at the #ifdef
__ECOS bit in scan.c for details.
- Reduce memory usage. There are fields marked for possible removal in
struct _inode, and there's the __totlen field in struct
jffs2_raw_node_ref as discussed recently.
Sort of separate, and I have a hacked-up mostly working version already:
- Make fileio package not gratuitously include kernel header files.
- Add up RedBoot fileio support so RedBoot can read/write JFFS2.
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dwmw2
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