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From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lindsay Roberts <lindsay.roberts.os@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	celinux-dev@tree.celinuxforum.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Add romfs version 2
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:21:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070717192100.GE11166@waste.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070717013635.d6d0b124.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:36:35AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:01:48 +1000 "Lindsay Roberts" <lindsay.roberts.os@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > * Increases romfs partition size limit from 2GB to 4GB.

That seems worthwhile.

> > * Adds new derivative of romfs filesystem (rom2fs) with
> >   block aligned regular file data to bring performance
> >   parity with ext2/3. This is about 225% of the read
> >   speed of the existing romfs.

Doesn't that make these filesystems much bigger? By, on average, .5k
per file? Or, if I'm understanding things correctly, ~1k?

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-17 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-13  6:01 [PATCH] fs: Add romfs version 2 Lindsay Roberts
2007-07-17  8:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-17 19:21   ` Matt Mackall [this message]
2007-07-18  3:16     ` Lindsay Roberts
2007-07-18 17:02       ` Tim Bird
2007-07-25  7:28         ` [Celinux-dev] " Greg Ungerer
2007-07-25 18:40       ` Pavel Machek
2007-08-06  7:43         ` Lindsay Roberts
2007-08-06 17:20           ` Matt Mackall
2007-07-30 18:12 ` Phillip Susi
2007-07-30 18:29   ` Rene Herman
2007-08-06 19:41 ` Sergey Vlasov

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