From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Obsolete nodes that are unlinked when possible
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:27:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174062429.11160.10.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1174061640.26465.235.camel@gentoo-jocke.transmode.se>
Hi Joakim,
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 17:14 +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> Ouch, I just discovered that JFFS2_SUMMARY disables
> jffs2_can_mark_obsolete(c). Is this really needed for all
> obsolete cases?
>
> SUMMARY really implies that a better automatic GC is needed, since
> your
> fs will be littered with deletion entries.
I am not the author of this stuff, so I probably not the right person
for CC :-)
But it is understandable why they did this - because otherwise it would
need marking corresponding entries in summary as obsolete, and here you
have a problem of an unclean reboot between marking the node and the
summary entry obsolete.
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-16 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-16 15:45 [PATCH] Obsolete nodes that are unlinked when possible Joakim Tjernlund
2007-03-16 16:14 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-03-16 16:27 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2007-03-16 17:04 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-03-16 17:26 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-03-19 10:55 ` Ferenc Havasi
2007-03-19 14:56 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-04-19 19:34 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-04-20 21:13 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-21 8:56 ` Joakim Tjernlund
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