Re: UBIFS vs Logfs (was [RFC PATCH] UBIFS - new flash file system)

From: JÃrn Engel
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 07:16:59 EST


On Tue, 1 April 2008 12:46:12 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> JÃrn Engel wrote:
> >Write-back of data: currently not.
>
> Taking into account this, bad block handling and other stuff I kindly ask
> you
> not to do these "tricky" things like comparing amount of code lines.
> I believe if you implement all the things, you'll have _way_ more code. I
> believe you'll even have to re-design many things because write-back really
> affects the design a lot. Let's be fair.

Take those numbers with as much salt as you like. Implementing
write-back caching for metadata actually reduced the line count by 100
or so. And it did affect the design a lot, I agree.

JÃrn

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