Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three

David Weinehall
2007-05-19T15:05:59Z

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:53:19PM +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:41:10 -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> > JÃ¶rn> On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:34:34 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> >
> > JÃ¶rn> How many of you have worked for IBM before? Vowels are not
> > evil. ;)
> >
> > Nope, they're not. I just think that LogFS isn't descriptive enough,
> > or more accurately, is the *wrong* description of this filesystem.
>
> That was the whole point. JFFS2, the journaling flash filesystem, is a
> strictly log-structured filesystem. LogFS has a journal.
>
> It is also the filesystem that tries to scale logarithmically, as Arnd
> has noted. Maybe I should call it Log2 to emphesize this point. Log1
> would be horrible scalability.

So, log2fs... Sounds great to me.

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Regards: David
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