[RFC] Volatile data device vor jffs2

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 2 August 2004 19:14:57 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <20040802170824.GC26115 at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> you wrote:
> >
> > Your approach doesn't always work for me because sometimes people care
> > a lot about the last log entries.  They need to be inside a
> > non-volatile medium, either nvram or flash.  Unless you want to move
> > the page cache to nvram... ;)
> 
> Did you consider using oramfs? See http://pramfs.sourceforge.net/

We already have something similar.  People have to sort their data and
send some to one fs, other to the other fs.  Prone to errors, static,
ugly code, etc.

Jffs2 would be able to do the sorting transparently.

Jörn

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