Great jffs2 speedup

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Thu Sep 29 06:26:20 EDT 2005


On Thu, 29 September 2005 14:21:21 +0400, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> Jörn Engel wrote:
> >
> >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.
> "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. :-)

Agreed.  In general, this patch opens an option for a DoS attack.

Jörn

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