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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:49:55 +0800
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On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:34 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Reduced testability, mainly. Also potentially reduced usefulness. 

CONFIG_MTD has never been a barrier to testability. JFFS2 depends on MTD
and had _most_ of its early testing and development done on the 'fake'
mtdram device.

Utility is a factor of the underlying design -- a filesystem designed
for flash really isn't suited to block devices.

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dwmw2