From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.16 #2) id 13d8hf-0006Vm-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:08:11 +0100 Received: from roma.axis.se ([193.13.178.2]) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #2) id 13d8hd-0006Vg-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 11:08:10 +0100 Message-ID: <004f01c0260f$fa7af160$1e2614ac@johanado.axis.se> From: "Johan Adolfsson" To: "Steven J. Hill" , "JFFS List" , "MTD List" Subject: Re: Humble question on actual journalling mechanism... Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 12:12:42 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: The jffs-dev list is archived on: http://mhonarc.axis.se/jffs-dev/threads.html Information about that should be at the JFFS pages as well (but it isn't). Currently it's only in the "Contact Us" section of our developer site - we'll fix that. /Johan -----Original Message----- From: Steven J. Hill To: JFFS List ; MTD List Date: den 23 september 2000 15:32 Subject: Humble question on actual journalling mechanism... >Greetings again. > >I have been reading the JFFS code solid for the past two days >now. I am about 1/4 the way through 'intrep.c' which is just >huge. The function that I am currently looking at is >'jffs_insert_node'. I must humbly ask for how the underlying >journaling/versioning works. In the explanation, if the >manipulation of the members in the 'jffs_node' structure with >regards to versioning could be explained, that would be great. > >All the other files were easy to understand because it was just >the basic calls for working with the flash and providing the >upper level functions for superblock and inode interfacing with >the kernel's VFS layer. 'intrep.c' is where the core is really >at and I would appreciate some simple understanding. > >Yes, I did look through the MTD archives. No, I did not look >through the JFFS mailing list archives because they do not seem >to exist anywhere off of the Axis page or anywhere else for >that matter. I also apologize for the cross-post. > >-Steve > >-- > Steven J. Hill - Embedded SW Engineer > Public Key: 'finger sjhill@mail.cotw.com' > FPR1: E124 6E1C AF8E 7802 A815 > FPR2: 7D72 829C 3386 4C4A E17D > To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org