Re: JFFS3 & performance

Jörn Engel
2005-01-13T16:13:25Z

On Thu, 13 January 2005 15:49:09 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:40 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> >
> > 2) Last node per erase block is a special endmarker node, similar to
> > cleanmarkers.
> >
> > 3) During unmount, an endmarker is written to the end of all
> > partially-filled erase blocks.
>
> This ties in quite nicely with the checkpointing where such a per-block
> 'endmarker' would contain a summary of what the mount code would glean
> by reading through that eraseblock.

Sounds like "design makes sense, please send patches". :)

Would this also allow us to use adler32/adler32r as checksum
algorithm?

Jörn

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