From: "Øyvind Harboe" <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: allow JFFS2 to write to really small disks
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:45:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125578756.4884.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050901120030.GB694@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:00 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > But who mounts a *tiny* JFFS2 volume except those that will be using it
> > as a WORM drive?
>
> People making mistakes. It is a very important usability issue to
> mark mistakes as such. Making it appear as if everything is ok and
> having it fail later, possibly days or weeks later, is bad usability.
>
> I would agree with you if the user-perceived behaviour was
> *immediatly* and *noticably* different. But unless people write
> enough data to fill their fs, the difference may go unnoticed.
Sounds good.
If I get some indication that there is a consensus from
maintainers/committers to add this mount option, I'll go ahead and write
it up.
--
Øyvind Harboe
http://www.zylin.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-01 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-31 9:28 PATCH: allow JFFS2 to write to really small disks Øyvind Harboe
2005-09-01 10:05 ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-01 11:12 ` Øyvind Harboe
2005-09-01 11:44 ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-01 11:52 ` Øyvind Harboe
2005-09-01 12:00 ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-01 12:45 ` Øyvind Harboe [this message]
2005-09-01 12:57 ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-01 13:00 ` Josh Boyer
2005-09-01 13:06 ` Øyvind Harboe
2005-09-02 12:44 ` Øyvind Harboe
2005-09-04 9:00 ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-05 10:05 ` oyvind.harboe
2005-09-05 10:27 ` Jörn Engel
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