Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-05 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2013/8/5 John Crispin : > On 05/08/13 08:13, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> >> 2013/8/3 John Crispin: >>> >>> On 03/08/13 16:04, Chirag Chhatriwala wrote: So what does this mean for the future of OpenWrt on NAND based devices? It seems like there are quite a few new and upcoming device

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-04 Thread John Crispin
On 05/08/13 08:13, Rafał Miłecki wrote: 2013/8/3 John Crispin: On 03/08/13 16:04, Chirag Chhatriwala wrote: So what does this mean for the future of OpenWrt on NAND based devices? It seems like there are quite a few new and upcoming devices making use of NAND flash exclusively. If squashfs (wh

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-04 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2013/8/3 John Crispin : > On 03/08/13 16:04, Chirag Chhatriwala wrote: >> >> So what does this mean for the future of OpenWrt on NAND based devices? >> It seems like there are quite a few new and upcoming devices making use >> of NAND flash exclusively. If squashfs (which according to me has been >

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-04 Thread Rafał Miłecki
2013/8/3 Jonas Gorski : > On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Personally I'm playing with Broadcom devices, but my friend asked me >> for help with WNDR4300. It's a device very similar to the WNDR3700v4. >> >> http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR3700v4 >> http://wik

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-04 Thread Chirag Chhatriwala
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 10:13 AM, John Crispin wrote: > > Hi, > > why so negative ? no one said we are throwing the towel ... in general > those targets using nand need to be converted to using an intermediate > layer such as ubi, which several targets already do. > > John, Sorry, I did not mean

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-03 Thread John Crispin
On 03/08/13 16:04, Chirag Chhatriwala wrote: So what does this mean for the future of OpenWrt on NAND based devices? It seems like there are quite a few new and upcoming devices making use of NAND flash exclusively. If squashfs (which according to me has been the filesystem of choice on my openwr

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-03 Thread Chirag Chhatriwala
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Jonas Gorski wrote: > > No, this is a generic NAND flash problem. > > The issue is that squashfs has no bad block management at all and > requires all blocks on order; but for proper NAND bad block management > you also need to be able to skip bad blocks and occasi

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-03 Thread Jonas Gorski
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > Hi, > > Personally I'm playing with Broadcom devices, but my friend asked me > for help with WNDR4300. It's a device very similar to the WNDR3700v4. > > http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR3700v4 > http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR4300 >

[OpenWrt-Devel] Question about squasfsh/jffs2 on NAND (WNDR3700v4 / WNDR4300)

2013-08-03 Thread Rafał Miłecki
Hi, Personally I'm playing with Broadcom devices, but my friend asked me for help with WNDR4300. It's a device very similar to the WNDR3700v4. http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR3700v4 http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR4300 http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3700 http://wiki.openwrt.or