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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Alexander Larsson <alex@cendio.se>
Cc: Markus Thiesmeyer <mthi@gmx.de>,
	mtd@infradead.org, jffs-dev@axis.com, bmatthews@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Is JFFS a full featured filesystem?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:52:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22134.965224365@cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000802154249.31703A-100000@biffen.cendio.se>


alex@cendio.se said:
> What about the log-ordering constraints? That kinda voids any write
> caching at all.

Not really. It's not that difficult, you just need a warped mind. (Mine 
isn't currently warped _enough_, but I'm learning fast :)

> It could possibly be solved using a kernel thread that
> does all the flash writing (in a serialized fashion), 

yesyesyes

> but the caching problems get a lot harder then.

Not _so_ hard that it isn't worth doing, IMHO.

--
dwmw2




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  reply	other threads:[~2000-08-02 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-01 16:15 Is JFFS a full featured filesystem? Markus Thiesmeyer
2000-08-01 18:08 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-08-02 11:13 ` Alexander Larsson
2000-08-02 12:11   ` David Woodhouse
2000-08-02 12:24     ` David Woodhouse
2000-08-02 13:45     ` Alexander Larsson
2000-08-02 13:52       ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2000-08-02 14:20       ` David Woodhouse
2000-08-02 15:33         ` Alexander Larsson
2000-08-02 16:58         ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-08-02 14:13     ` Alexander Larsson
2000-08-02 16:50   ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-08-02 18:06     ` Alexander Larsson
2000-08-02 19:36       ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-08-02 19:57         ` Alexander Larsson

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