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Re: Is JFFS a full featured filesystem?

To: Alexander Larsson <alex@xxxxxxx.se>
Subject: Re: Is JFFS a full featured filesystem?
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxx.org>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:52:45 +0100
Cc: Markus Thiesmeyer <mthi@xxxxxxx.de>, mtd@xxxxxxx.org, jffs-dev@xxxxxxx.com, bmatthews@xxxxxxx.com
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alex@xxxxxxx.se said:
> What about the log-ordering constraints? That kinda voids any write
> caching at all.

Not really. It's not that difficult, you just need a warped mind. (Mine 
isn't currently warped _enough_, but I'm learning fast :)

> It could possibly be solved using a kernel thread that
> does all the flash writing (in a serialized fashion), 

yesyesyes

> but the caching problems get a lot harder then.

Not _so_ hard that it isn't worth doing, IMHO.

--
dwmw2

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- Re: Is JFFS a full featured filesystem?
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