background garbage collection in UBIFS

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 14:52:15 EST 2011


Hi,

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 16:28 +0530, Jagadish Bihani wrote:
> Referring to the following link:
> http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_bgt_thread
> 
> I came to know that background garbage collection is not implemented in 
> UBIFS.

Yes.

> I  want to know that whether the latest release of UBIFS contains background
> garbage collection.

No.

> The work which I am doing for my M. Tech project depends on it. If it is 
> not implemented,
> would you please advise me that how much time it may take for a single
> person with no prior experience to implement it  and level of difficulty 
> etc.?

This could take from 1 week to 1 year, depending on who is doing it and
probably some other factors.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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