Re: JFFS2 improvement idea

Artem B. Bityuckiy
2004-11-17T10:20:19Z

> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 10:06 +0000, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> > In deletion direntries, why not to store the physical offset of the
> > deleted direntry (instead of, say, mctime field)?
>
> I need more coffee before I give a coherent answer -- and I need _lots_
> of it before I can comment on Ferenc's code, although that looks very
> good so far.
Ok, I hope we will discuss this later.

>
> But remember the deletion dirent node can obsolete more than one old
> dirent, on NAND flash. When we GC a dirent node, we weren't able to
> immediately mark the old one obsolete so there can be two. Or more, if
> this keeps happening and we lose power each time we GC the node in
> question.
It seems to me this is not problem...

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.