[PATCH 0/6] jffs2: extend write verification to all write paths

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Thu Aug 20 13:46:45 PDT 2026


On Thu, 2026-08-20 at 20:58 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> 
> Please explain why this is needed.
> JFFS2 is in "Odd fixes" maintenance mode.
> It never worked well for NAND flash, that's why UBIFS (JFFS3) was
> born.

JFFS2 works OK for NAND flash. We got it running with up to 1GiB of
NAND for OLPC.

It doesn't scale well past that, with both memory usage and mount time,
but it's still in active use on NAND in a bunch of embedded platforms
(including OpenWRT routers).
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