JFFS3 superblock search

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Mon Jun 6 09:15:34 EDT 2005


On Mon, 6 June 2005 16:59:07 +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> 
> P.S. Since the document has no description of the general approach of
> storing data in JFFS3, I'll note that I'm thinking about a Reiser4-like
> approach, i.e., storing all the FS data in one 4-level B+ tree. There
> will be a superblock containing the FS description and admitting of very
> fast JFFS3 mount.

You already know that I'm skeptical about the B+ tree.  But I'm even
more skeptical about a 4-level tree.  That could turn into a
bottleneck rather quickly.

Apart from that, I'd like to see some further details of the tree
design.

Jörn

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