[maemo-developers] Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 09:15 +0200, ext Henrik Hedberg wrote:
> Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> 
> > Does UnionFS support block rotation (like ubifs) for the internal flash?
> 
>     UnionFS works on top of other file system(s) in directory level. In 
> this case, UBIFS would be still there for the underlying root filesystem.
> 
>     It seems that the overhead of using UnionFS is about 10% [1], which 
> should be noted when making decisions. This performance lost will affect 
> all files, not should "optified files" as in the original plan.

Maybe it could be used selectively for installed applications only.  I
think the 10-12% speed loss is not going to be accepted for all file
system access (doesn't make sense either if it can be avoided).

-Kimmo

> 
>     BR,
> 
>     Henrik
> 
> [1] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7714
>