From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add suport for tftp as a filesystem
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:16:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120220181639.GX3852@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120220045437.GC27599@game.jcrosoft.org>
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:54:37AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 18:58 Sun 19 Feb , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > This adds tftp filesystem support. It currently duplicates
> > significant amounts of the tftp (command) support. This is ok
> > since we can eventually drop the original tftp command later.
> >
> > tftp is not really suitable to be handled as a filesystem. It lacks
> > support for stat, reading directories and other things. Handling
> > it as a filesystem has one big advantage though: tftp is no special
> > case for boot scripts and/or commands anymore which makes them simpler.
> >
> > This implementation has some improvements to the original tftp command.
> > It supports blocksize negotiation which speeds up transfers if the tftp
> > server supports it. Also we can determine the filesize to transfer if
> > the remote end supports it.
> >
> look good do you have seach patch for nfs?
No, everyone is invited to implement it ;)
NFS is a bit more complicated than tftp though. The implementation we
have lacks readdir support, so we have to figure out how to do this
first.
Sascha
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-19 17:58 tftp filesystem support Sascha Hauer
2012-02-19 17:58 ` [PATCH 1/5] Add suport for tftp as a filesystem Sascha Hauer
2012-02-20 4:54 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-02-20 18:16 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2012-02-19 17:58 ` [PATCH 2/5] make uimages work on tftpfs Sascha Hauer
2012-02-19 17:58 ` [PATCH 3/5] net: let net_udp_get_payload return void * Sascha Hauer
2012-02-19 17:58 ` [PATCH 4/5] add string for -ETIMEDOUT Sascha Hauer
2012-02-19 17:58 ` [PATCH 5/5] copy_file: limit progress bar to sensible limits Sascha Hauer
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