A simple JFFS3 GC algorithm

Artem B. Bityutskiy dedekind at yandex.ru
Mon Mar 6 13:19:49 EST 2006


Ferenc Havasi wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> We have been thinking about JFFS3 and its remaining parts (such us 
> garbage collection), and described a simple idea for it. I don't think 
> it is the best one, but relatively simple, may implemented in the 
> first/prototype version of JFFS3. The document can be downloaded from here:
> 

Hi Ferenc,

Your proposal is based on a "map" which is basically a per-region table. 
This is unscalable solution. Do you have any other more scalable 
proposals? Let's for now consider this as a fall-back solution, OK?

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.




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