From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: "Martin Däumler" <martin.daeumler@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Real-time flash simulator
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:39:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070622093945.GC17988@lazybastard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <467B952E.30308@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
On Fri, 22 June 2007 11:23:58 +0200, Martin Däumler wrote:
>
> The overall goal of my work is to develop respectively to examine the
> feasibility of a scaleable flash file system on raw flash. Like
> mentioned on the MTD web site this might be very difficult because
> of wear-levelling and bad block management. In my opinion, for real-time
> issues it is necessary to avoid garbage collection. So, a layer between
> file system and raw flash, performing wear-levelling and bad block
> management could be one approach to be investigated furhter. The
> real-time flash simulator is just one step in this direction.
What makes the "layer between file system and raw flash" so special, if
you don't mind me asking? If wear-leveling and bad block management
causes latency, that latency does not go away by moving it to some other
layers.
Jörn
--
Anything that can go wrong, will.
-- Finagle's Law
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-22 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-22 7:19 Real-time flash simulator Martin Däumler
2007-06-22 8:09 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-06-22 9:23 ` Martin Däumler
2007-06-22 9:39 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2007-06-22 10:11 ` Martin Däumler
2007-06-22 10:24 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-22 10:59 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-06-22 11:54 ` Jörn Engel
2007-06-22 11:06 ` Martin Däumler
2007-06-22 8:26 ` Jörn Engel
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