From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13JyxC-0002UG-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:53:02 +0100 Received: from dns.cygnus.co.uk ([194.130.39.3] helo=pasanda.cygnus.co.uk) by infradead.org with smtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13Jyx7-0002UA-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:53:00 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: Alexander Larsson Cc: Markus Thiesmeyer , mtd@infradead.org, jffs-dev@axis.com, bmatthews@redhat.com Subject: Re: Is JFFS a full featured filesystem? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 14:52:45 +0100 Message-ID: <22134.965224365@cygnus.co.uk> Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: 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 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org