JFFS2 an nodes checking

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Sep 28 10:58:13 EDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 18:47 +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> > I'm thinking of fifos here too...
> 
> I suppose you don't mean the Unix FIFO file type (like block device, 
> socket, etc).

Yes, he does. The problem is that each time you access a FIFO you update
its ctime and mtime on the flash... which leads to a _lot_ of nodes,
only one of which is non-obsolete. That's a problem on NAND flash.

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dwmw2





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