01 Aug, 2008

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10 Jul, 2007

1 commit


25 Apr, 2007

1 commit

  • In particular, remove the bit in the LICENCE file about contacting
    Red Hat for alternative arrangements. Their errant IS department broke
    that arrangement a long time ago -- the policy of collecting copyright
    assignments from contributors came to an end when the plug was pulled on
    the servers hosting the project, without notice or reason.

    We do still dual-license it for use with eCos, with the GPL+exception
    licence approved by the FSF as being GPL-compatible. It's just that nobody
    has the right to license it differently.

    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

    David Woodhouse
     

22 May, 2006

1 commit


21 May, 2006

2 commits


20 May, 2006

1 commit

  • This improves the time to mount 512MiB of NAND flash on my OLPC prototype
    by about 4%. We used to read the last page of the eraseblock twice -- once
    to find the offset of the summary node, and again to actually _read_ the
    summary node. Now we read the last page only once, and read more only if
    we need to.

    We also don't allocate a new buffer just for the summary code -- we use
    the buffer which was already allocated for the scan. Better still, if the
    'buffer' for the scan is actually just a pointer directly into NOR flash,
    we use that too, avoiding the memcpy() which we used to do.

    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

    David Woodhouse
     

13 May, 2006

1 commit

  • This attached patches provide xattr support including POSIX-ACL and
    SELinux support on JFFS2 (version.5).

    There are some significant differences from previous version posted
    at last December.
    The biggest change is addition of EBS(Erase Block Summary) support.
    Currently, both kernel and usermode utility (sumtool) can recognize
    xattr nodes which have JFFS2_NODETYPE_XATTR/_XREF nodetype.

    In addition, some bugs are fixed.
    - A potential race condition was fixed.
    - Unexpected fail when updating a xattr by same name/value pair was fixed.
    - A bug when removing xattr name/value pair was fixed.

    The fundamental structures (such as using two new nodetypes and exclusion
    mechanism by rwsem) are unchanged. But most of implementation were reviewed
    and updated if necessary.
    Espacially, we had to change several internal implementations related to
    load_xattr_datum() to avoid a potential race condition.

    [1/2] xattr_on_jffs2.kernel.version-5.patch
    [2/2] xattr_on_jffs2.utils.version-5.patch

    Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei
    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

    KaiGai Kohei
     

07 Nov, 2005

2 commits

  • Signed-off-by: Ferenc Havasi
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Ferenc Havasi
     
  • The goal of summary is to speed up the mount time. Erase block summary (EBS)
    stores summary information at the end of every (closed) erase block. It is
    no longer necessary to scan all nodes separetly (and read all pages of them)
    just read this "small" summary, where every information is stored which is
    needed at mount time.

    This summary information is stored in a JFFS2_FEATURE_RWCOMPAT_DELETE. During
    the mount process if there is no summary info the orignal scan process will
    be executed. EBS works with NAND and NOR flashes, too.

    There is a user space tool called sumtool to generate this summary
    information for a JFFS2 image.

    Signed-off-by: Ferenc Havasi
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Ferenc Havasi