Re: PATCH: allow JFFS2 to write to really small disks

[Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:57 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Thu, 1 September 2005 14:45:56 +0200, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> You're asking for too much. :)
> 
> Most of the time, most people just don't care.  If they actually do
> care and are opposed to your patch, they will speak up.  But you won't
> ever find out before actively trying to merge the patch.

I agree with Jörn on this point.  It should be a mount option.

Not that my opinion amounts to much... :)

josh