Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

David Woodhouse
2007-05-16T04:54:14Z

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:19 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 15:07:05 -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> >
> > I've been semi watching this, and the only comment I really can give
> > is that I hate the name. To me, logfs implies a filesystem for
> > logging purposes, not for Flash hardware with wear leveling issues to
> > be taken into account.
>
> Yeah, well, ...
>
> Two years ago when I started all this, I was looking for a good name.
> All I could come up with sounded stupid, so I picked "LogFS" as a code
> name. As soon as I find a better name, the code name should get
> replaced.
>
> By now I still don't have anything better. All alternatives that were
> proposed are just as bad - with the added disadvantage of being new and
> not established yet. My hope of ever finding a better name is nearly
> zero.

Personally I'd just go for 'JFFS3'. After all, it has a better claim to
the name than either of its predecessors :)

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