Tiny Core Linux

Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Extension requests => Topic started by: spence91 on February 26, 2013, 11:32:05 AM

Title: F2FS
Post by: spence91 on February 26, 2013, 11:32:05 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS

It's a new(ish) file system that's designed for Flash devices. SSDs, SD cards, etc.

Might be something worthwhile to incorporate into Tinycore? It may well speed things up even more.

Title: Re: F2FS
Post by: bmarkus on February 26, 2013, 11:54:09 AM

WIKIPEDIA article states it is supported in LINUX kernel 3.8 Also as it is a new file system I would wait at least one year before any production use.

Title: Re: F2FS
Post by: curaga on February 26, 2013, 12:23:38 PM

Yep, the 3.8 kernel was released merely a week ago (+ 1 day).

Title: Re: F2FS
Post by: spence91 on February 26, 2013, 03:58:20 PM

Yes - I got excited reading the linux release notes.

If I try to apply the tinycore patches to the new kernel and compile, will the older libraries packages still work fine?

Title: Re: F2FS
Post by: curaga on March 01, 2013, 12:02:11 PM

TC will run with vanilla kernels too, our patches aren't essential to running (merely cosmetic, speed improvements etc.).

Title: Re: F2FS
Post by: gerald_clark on March 01, 2013, 01:02:01 PM

However none of the extensions containing modules or depending on extensions containing modules will work.