Embed littleFS

[laercionit]

Hello .. Good night.
I've been designing an aquarium controller for a few years.
I currently use ESP8266, the code has already been ported and adapted to run on ESP32. Fantastic speed and differences between MCUs.

I'm still using SPIFFS in ESP32, because I didn't see anything native to LITTLEFS. By my studies it is more reliable and I have been using it for some time on ESP8266.

Any chance of LITTLEFS being incorporated into the CORE ARDUINO ESP32?

[beegee-tokyo]

Not sure if anybody works on that.
You can try the esp32_littleflash
But I didn't try that yet.

[laercionit]

LittleFS is much more robust than SPIFFS, does not lose formatting due to power failure.
Currently it is already incorporated in ESP8266, as it is something far superior and I see that the ESP32 CORE has advanced, I found it coherent to know if there were plans to develop native Data Upload by IDE and even partition with this type of configuration.

[zekageri]

It would be cool if someone would port it to esp32. SPIFFS is limited if we use 16mb esp32s. I have to use a 7mb ota 7mb app and 1mb flash because the slowness of the spiffs. :(

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[JohnMacrae]

It would be very welcome - not least for code portability reasons. :)

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[sblantipodi]

since SPIFFS has been deprecated on ESP8266, LittleFS should be integrated in ESP32.
there is no reason to deprecate something on ESP8266 and leave it live on ESP32.

[lbernstone]

While it would be nice to have a port, littleFS is not supported in esp-idf, so is unlikely to become canon here, and it is not part of Arduino compatibility (the purpose of this project).
The beauty of the Arduino model is that 3rd party libraries can come and go without putting the onus of maintenance on the chip manufacturers.

[sblantipodi]

and what is the sense of deprecating SPIFFS on ESP8266 and not on ESP32?

[lbernstone]

You will need to ask them. It may be deprecated on esp-idf eventually and replaced with LittleFS. At that point, it will be trivial to add to arduino. The ESP32 and ESP8266 projects are not welded together.

[me-no-dev]

wait... why should we care that 8266 crew deprecated SPIFFS and somehow follow them? I am really confused by such way of thinking. They did not bother to ask or discuss this with us. SPIFFS is supported in IDF and is supported here. LittleFS has nothing to do with it.