From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Stornelli Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Introducing Lanyard Filesystem Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:14:22 +0200 Message-ID: <5030BC7E.3030000@gmail.com> References: <1345333117-2826-1-git-send-email-mail@danrl.de> <1345371135.4441.2.camel@tunafish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Luedtke Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:54355 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751242Ab2HSKUu (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2012 06:20:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1345371135.4441.2.camel@tunafish> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Il 19/08/2012 12:12, Dan Luedtke ha scritto: > (resent) > On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 00:16 +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: >> What are the use cases of this filesystem? >> It looks very minimal without much features. > That's the feature, actually. Think of the Arduino platform or other embedded devices (TV, Car Entertainment) that just want to read/play files. You're right, no big features, but that's by design. > > Dan > You say that you wrote a new fs because of some lacks in the other fs ("...I kind of invented a very simple filesystem that solves the issues I had with other filesystems...."). I read the website (very quickly actually) but I didn't find the point: what are pros and cons of this fs compared with existing fs? What problems does it solve? Marco