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- extents - fast big file truncate
- journaling transactions & recovery - power loss resistance
-Lwext4 is an excellent choice for SD/MMC card, USB flash drive or other block based memory device. However it is not good for flash memory–based storage devices.
+Lwext4 is an excellent choice for SD/MMC card, USB flash drive or any other wear
+leveled memory types. However it is not good for raw flash devices.
Feel free to contact me:
kostka.grzegorz@gmail.com
Lwext4 could be used also as fuse internals. Here is a nice project which uses lwext4 as a filesystem base:
* https://github.com/ngkaho1234/fuse-lwext4
+Some of the source files are licensed under GPLv2. It makes whole
+lwext4 GPLv2 licensed. To use library as a BSD3, GPLv2 licensed source
+files must be removed first. At this point there are two files
+licensed under GPLv2:
+* ext4_xattr.c
+* ext4_extents.c
+
+All other modules and headers are BSD-3-Clause licensed code.
+
+
Features
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* generic for x86 or amd64
* arm-none-eabi-gcc for ARM cortex-m0/m3/m4 microcontrollers
* avr-gcc for AVR xmega microcontrollers
-* bfin-elf-gcc for blockfin processors
+* bfin-elf-gcc for blackfin processors
* msp430-gcc for msp430 microcontrollers
Library has been tested only for generic (amd64) & ARM Cortex M architectures.