Great jffs2 speedup

[Jörn Engel]

On Thu, 29 September 2005 12:15:49 +0200, hinko.kocevar at cetrtapot.si wrote:
> 
> All of our umounts are unclean - or said better application is not 
> taking care of umount at all. System may be powered off anytime. Which 
> raises another question: Will this impact mount time in long run? Eg. 
> after more and more unclean (u)mounts should we expect significant 
> performance degradation?

Only if your applications write to the fs in small chunks.  Known
problem, noone cared enough to actually fix it yet.

If most writes are in the range of 4k, you're safe.

Jörn

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