With some of the new filesystems coming out for Linux, many of which appear to be more flash-card friendly, I'm wondering (maybe hoping against hope would be a better term) what are the odds that we will be seeing them for the N8x0? BTRFS and possibly NILFS2 seem to be far more friendly for flash-based devices than ext2/3.

I know, it will take a kernel recompile (an updated kernel, actually), but is it possible to see this?

Thanks,
--vr

Sure. The n810 (the only device I have, so I can't speak authoritatively about others) has loadable kernel modules. I don't see a reason why you couldn't provide your own kernel modules.

I should add: it wouldn't even take a recompile of the full kernel; you just need the sdk with kernel building "stuff" and the respective module's source code (for that kernel; there's the rub).

I'd expect it's readily possible to write kernel module packages for maemo.

http://test.maemo.org/platform/docs/...uide_bora.html
http://koltsoff.com/pub/hello-n800/
http://maemo.org/maemo_release_docum....x/node12.html
http://maemo.org/development/trainin...in_html/node9/

what about ext4 on a n900?
afaik, they are damn fast with ssd correct? could it improve the speed also on the device? i am not a hw guy but i think everything is nand correct?