From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-bw0-f49.google.com ([209.85.214.49]) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.72 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1PgN1z-0005AJ-Gc for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:52:25 +0000 Received: by bwz5 with SMTP id 5so1860346bwz.36 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:52:21 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: background garbage collection in UBIFS From: Artem Bityutskiy To: Jagadish Bihani In-Reply-To: <4D357243.4090305@cse.iitb.ac.in> References: <4D357243.4090305@cse.iitb.ac.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:52:15 +0200 Message-ID: <1295639535.3186.5.camel@koala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Reply-To: dedekind1@gmail.com List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi, On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 16:28 +0530, Jagadish Bihani wrote: > Referring to the following link: > http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_bgt_thread > > I came to know that background garbage collection is not implemented in > UBIFS. Yes. > I want to know that whether the latest release of UBIFS contains background > garbage collection. No. > The work which I am doing for my M. Tech project depends on it. If it is > not implemented, > would you please advise me that how much time it may take for a single > person with no prior experience to implement it and level of difficulty > etc.? This could take from 1 week to 1 year, depending on who is doing it and probably some other factors. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)