Great jffs2 speedup

Ferenc Havasi havasi at inf.u-szeged.hu
Thu Sep 29 07:34:44 EDT 2005


Jörn Engel wrote:

>On Thu, 29 September 2005 14:21:21 +0400, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
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>>Jörn Engel wrote:
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>>>Dummy argument.  Wear levelling is just a means to avoid the real
>>>problem - early wear-out of specific blocks.  Spending one erase block
>>>for cs is pretty sane, as long as this block doesn't wear-out well
>>>before the rest.
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>>"As long as" is the essential part. If it is true - nice. In general 
>>this can't be true. And, anticipating your remark, I agree that it still 
>>may have its place. :-)
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>Agreed.  In general, this patch opens an option for a DoS attack.
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Maybe I don't understand something. How makes CS possible DoS attacks?

Ferenc





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