JFFS3 superblock search

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Mon Jun 6 10:16:50 EDT 2005


On Mon, 6 June 2005 18:10:37 +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> 
> > There are valid reasons to use 512 byte blocks instead.  Most likely I
> > will do just that for logfs, just as a hint.  Therefore, even with 8
> > byte keys, you'd be down to 32^4 or about a million.  Prepare for more
> > levels.
> 
> May be. Should think more.
> If you're going to make use of the Tree-based approach, then why don't
> you rename logfs to JFFS3 and we'll join :-) ?

I won't make use of a single tree.  And naming is jffs3 would just be
gross.  Image the name correctly describing the design?  Eew!  ;)

Jörn

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There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make
it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other is
to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
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