Re: JFFS3 & performance

Jared Hulbert
2005-01-21T22:34:01Z

> a) Never generate checksums.
> b) Always generate checksums, but never check them.
>
> Strategy b) sounds pretty stupid, but it optimizes the 90% case - read
> - and allows the user to remount the filesystem to switch to PARANOID
> mode. So, we could go as you proposed, we could settle for either a)
> or b) or we could allow both. In that case I'd call a) the SLOPPY
> case and b) the RELAXED, just to distinguish things.
>
> Which one makes most sense?

Allowing for both makes the most sense. Keep in mind that most other
filesystems aren't nearly as paranoid as JFFS2.