[PATCH] LogFS take three

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Wed May 16 07:38:18 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:34 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Jörn Engel wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:54:14 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > Personally I'd just go for 'JFFS3'. After all, it has a better claim to
> > > the name than either of its predecessors :)
> > 
> > Did you ever see akpm's facial expression when he tried to pronounce
> > "JFFS2"?  ;)
> 
> JFFS3 is a good, meaningful name to anyone familiar with JFFS2.
> 
> But if akpm can't pronounce it, how about FFFS for faster flash
> filesystem.... ;-)

The problem is that JFFS2 will always be faster in terms of I/O speed
anyway, just because it does not have to maintain on-flash indexing
data structures. But yes, it is slow in mount and in building big
inodes, so the "faster" is confusing.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)





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