Re: Some JFFS3 feedback

Jörn Engel
2005-11-16T17:07:01Z

On Wed, 16 November 2005 17:02:12 +0300, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> Charles Manning wrote:
>
> >About 9 years back, I did some flash file system patent research and IIRC
> >one of the patents covered something very similar to the Wandering Tree
> >approach to addressing the write-in-place problem, so there might be some
> >IP issues with this. I shall have a scratch around to see if I can find it
> >(though finding something in a 20+ year old paper mountain is a challenge).
>
> Hmm, it is interesting. We would be very appreciated if you provide some
> information.

Definitely. If there is a patent on this, we need to do the usual
dance to find some prior art and either invalidate the patent or make
it specific enough to be trivially avoided.

Jörn

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