From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759136AbYDAL2b (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 07:28:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756965AbYDAL2H (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 07:28:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([192.100.105.134]:40596 "EHLO mgw-mx09.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756760AbYDAL2G (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 07:28:06 -0400 Message-ID: <47F21B47.4000206@yandex.ru> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:23:51 +0300 From: Artem Bityutskiy User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Tomasz Chmielewski , LKML , penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cm4gRW5nZWw=?= , ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com, jwboyer@gmail.com Subject: Re: UBIFS vs Logfs (was [RFC PATCH] UBIFS - new flash file system) References: <47F1EC20.6050600@wpkg.org> <47F1F644.4060000@yandex.ru> <878wzx25s7.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <878wzx25s7.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Apr 2008 11:27:43.0685 (UTC) FILETIME=[6720A750:01C893EB] X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > Artem Bityutskiy writes: > >> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >>> For me, the motivators to wait for LogFS are mainly the facts that it >>> can work on traditional block devices, and not only on pure flash: >> Sorry Thomasz, for me this makes zero sense. There are _much_ better file >> systems for block devices. > > I think he refers to flash disks appearing as block devices, like > usb sticks or similar. Right, I also meant that in my opinion it makes more sense to use traditional file-systems like ext3 on USB-key/MMC and the like stuff (which I confusingly referred as "block devices"), or may be something more "heavy-weight" like XFS or JFS (never tried them, though). -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)