Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Improve generated ext4 images

2012-08-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> NAK. Journaling is disabled on purpose, as it wears out flash based >>> devices faster. >> I don't know of any non-anecdotal evidence showing that the difference >> is significant. OTOH the added reliability afforded by journaling >> (especially for the kind of boxes that typically run OpenWR

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Improve generated ext4 images

2012-08-29 Thread John Crispin
On 29/08/12 22:57, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> NAK. Journaling is disabled on purpose, as it wears out flash based >> devices faster. > > I don't know of any non-anecdotal evidence showing that the difference > is significant. OTOH the added reliability afforded by journaling > (especially for the

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Improve generated ext4 images

2012-08-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> NAK. Journaling is disabled on purpose, as it wears out flash based > devices faster. I don't know of any non-anecdotal evidence showing that the difference is significant. OTOH the added reliability afforded by journaling (especially for the kind of boxes that typically run OpenWRT where it's

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Improve generated ext4 images

2012-08-29 Thread Michael Heimpold
Am Mittwoch, 29. August 2012, 07:01:43 schrieb Imre Kaloz: > NAK. Journaling is disabled on purpose, as it wears out flash based > devices faster. This is true. Actually, I use ext4 on eMMC flash device. Linux kernel modells this a block device, so this is the first mistake IMHO. What would be

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Improve generated ext4 images

2012-08-29 Thread Adam Gensler
Is that really a concern these days? Compact flash cards are extremely affordable now. I've had the same 1gig compact flash card in my digital camera for over 6 years. It has taken well more than 20,000 pictures and still works perfectly. Maybe in the past this was something to be concerned wi

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Improve generated ext4 images

2012-08-28 Thread Imre Kaloz
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:05:46 +0200, Michael Heimpold wrote: Currently none of valuable ext4 features are used when ext4 image generation is selected, most notably the journaling function is missing. This patch enables the journaling feature and optimizes the directories in the created filesy

[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] Improve generated ext4 images

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Heimpold
Currently none of valuable ext4 features are used when ext4 image generation is selected, most notably the journaling function is missing. This patch enables the journaling feature and optimizes the directories in the created filesystem afterwards. Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold --- include/im