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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dan Luedtke <mail@danrl.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, chaosman@ontika.net, muthur@gmail.com,
	kerolasa@iki.fi, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Introducing Lanyard Filesystem
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 23:06:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120818230651.49cef81a@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1345333117-2826-1-git-send-email-mail@danrl.de>

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 01:38:37 +0200
Dan Luedtke <mail@danrl.de> wrote:

> This patch introduces the Lanyard Filesystem (LanyFS), a filesystem
> for highly mobile and removable storage devices.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Luedtke <mail@danrl.de>
> ---
> "Release early, release often" they said. Here is my work of the
> past weeks. This is a RFC patch, so please comment, criticize, suggest
> and test test test. Of course patches are welcome, too.

Starting from first principles a bit you might want to read/review Arnd
Bergmanns work on Flash drive performance and behaviour. It has some
fairly significant impact on how you lay out your file system and in
particular questions like "where should I put stuff that is updated
regularly' (in the same blocks a FAT fs would put the FAT being one clear
answer)

http://lwn.net/Articles/428584/

and a pile of other stuff.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-18 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-18 23:38 [PATCH] fs: Introducing Lanyard Filesystem Dan Luedtke
2012-08-18 22:06 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-08-18 22:16 ` richard -rw- weinberger
     [not found]   ` <c925f795-28d8-4e6d-8131-9a14d6e83659@email.android.com>
2012-08-18 22:27     ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-08-19 10:12   ` Dan Luedtke
2012-08-19 10:14     ` Marco Stornelli
2012-08-19 13:34       ` Dan Luedtke
2012-08-19 12:02         ` Jochen Striepe
2012-08-19 15:33           ` Dan Luedtke
2012-08-19 14:07             ` Jochen Striepe
2012-08-19 14:27             ` Al Viro
2012-08-19 16:53               ` Dan Luedtke
2012-08-19 15:12                 ` Al Viro
2012-08-19 15:24                 ` Marco Stornelli
2012-08-20 17:36                   ` Dan Luedtke
2012-08-19 21:04             ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-08-19 21:20               ` Andi Kleen
2012-08-19 23:06               ` Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
2012-08-20  0:47                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-08-20  6:07                   ` Raymond Jennings
2012-08-20  6:49                     ` Oliver Neukum
2012-08-20  9:12                   ` Alexander Thomas
2012-08-20 13:21                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-08-22  8:38                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-08-20 11:36                   ` Pavel Machek
2012-08-20 12:49                     ` Ronnie Collinson
2012-08-20 17:48               ` Dan Luedtke
2012-08-19 13:25         ` Marco Stornelli
2012-08-19 15:45           ` Dan Luedtke
2012-08-22  9:53         ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-08-21  6:09 ` Vyacheslav Dubeyko
2012-08-23 17:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-24 11:50 ` Prashant Shah

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