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Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:34 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> J=C3=B6rn Engel wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:54:14 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > Personally I'd just go for 'JFFS3'. After all, it has a better claim =
to
> > > the name than either of its predecessors :)
> >=20
> > Did you ever see akpm's facial expression when he tried to pronounce
> > "JFFS2"?  ;)
>=20
> JFFS3 is a good, meaningful name to anyone familiar with JFFS2.
>=20
> But if akpm can't pronounce it, how about FFFS for faster flash
> filesystem.... ;-)

The problem is that JFFS2 will always be faster in terms of I/O speed
anyway, just because it does not have to maintain on-flash indexing
data structures. But yes, it is slow in mount and in building big
inodes, so the "faster" is confusing.

--=20
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
=D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC)