JFFS3 & performance

Artem B. Bityuckiy dedekind at infradead.org
Thu Jan 13 11:16:35 EST 2005


On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, [iso-8859-1] Jörn Engel wrote:

> On Thu, 13 January 2005 15:49:09 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:40 +0100, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > > 
> > > 2) Last node per erase block is a special endmarker node, similar to
> > >    cleanmarkers.
> > > 
> > > 3) During unmount, an endmarker is written to the end of all
> > >    partially-filled erase blocks.
> > 
> > This ties in quite nicely with the checkpointing where such a per-block
> > 'endmarker' would contain a summary of what the mount code would glean
> > by reading through that eraseblock.
> 
> Sounds like "design makes sense, please send patches". :)
> 
> Would this also allow us to use adler32/adler32r as checksum
> algorithm?
IMHO:
Keeping CRC at the end still makes sence.

> 
> Jörn
> 
> -- 
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> together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a
> universal interface. 
> -- Doug MacIlroy
> 

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Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.




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