PATCH: allow JFFS2 to write to really small disks

Øyvind Harboe oyvind.harboe at zylin.com
Thu Sep 1 08:45:56 EDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:00 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:

> > But who mounts a *tiny* JFFS2 volume except those that will be using it
> > as a WORM drive?
> 
> People making mistakes.  It is a very important usability issue to
> mark mistakes as such.  Making it appear as if everything is ok and
> having it fail later, possibly days or weeks later, is bad usability.
> 
> I would agree with you if the user-perceived behaviour was
> *immediatly* and *noticably* different.  But unless people write
> enough data to fill their fs, the difference may go unnoticed.

Sounds good.

If I get some indication that there is a consensus from
maintainers/committers to add this mount option, I'll go ahead and write
it up.


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Øyvind Harboe
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