Is JFFS a full featured filesystem?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Aug 2 09:52:45 EDT 2000


alex at cendio.se said:
> What about the log-ordering constraints? That kinda voids any write
> caching at all.

Not really. It's not that difficult, you just need a warped mind. (Mine 
isn't currently warped _enough_, but I'm learning fast :)

> It could possibly be solved using a kernel thread that
> does all the flash writing (in a serialized fashion), 

yesyesyes

> but the caching problems get a lot harder then.

Not _so_ hard that it isn't worth doing, IMHO.

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dwmw2




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