From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
To: Joern Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Embedded bios FTL
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:15:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050616091546.GA68824@atlantis.8hz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050615210155.GA32750@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:01:55PM +0200, Joern Engel wrote:
> On Wed, 15 June 2005 21:27:54 +0200, Sean Young wrote:
> > I'm assuming we're near to a state where it can be committed.
>
> Yep. No objections from my side. Nice job!
Thanks, committed.
> > According to General Software documentation their implementation "snoops"
> > the fat table in order to see which sectors can be chucked. Hmm...
>
> That's a smart thing to do if you can be certain the user is running
> fat on top. Being certain ain't so easy, though.
Indeed so. Besides, it would be more elegant if the file system driver
passed this on to the block device, via an ioctl. Would such a thing
stand up to scrutiny? As far as I can see, only the ftl block devices
would benefit.
Sean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-16 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-12 14:47 [PATCH] Embedded bios FTL Sean Young
2005-06-13 12:36 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-14 19:28 ` Sean Young
2005-06-14 22:18 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-15 19:27 ` Sean Young
2005-06-15 21:01 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-16 9:15 ` Sean Young [this message]
2005-06-16 10:28 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-16 10:29 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-16 11:54 ` Sean Young
2005-06-16 12:44 ` Jörn Engel
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