ANNOUNCE: Journalling Flash File System, v2.

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 13:03:24 EST


Well, it's been almost a week since the latest stupid bug was found in the
JFFS2 code, so I suppose it's time to admit to the world that it exists.

JFFS2, developed by Red Hat, is a complete reimplementation of a
journalling filesystem for FLASH devices, based on the original JFFS
from Axis Communications AB.

Improvements of JFFS2 over the original JFFS include:

        - Improved wear levelling and garbage collection performance.
        - Compression
        - Improved RAM footprint and response to system memory pressure.
        - Improved concurrency and support for suspending flash erases
        - Support for hard links.
        

You can get it from anonymous CVS:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.infradead.org:/home/cvs login (password: anoncvs)
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.infradead.org:/home/cvs co mtd
    
The only platform currently supported is Linux 2.4. A port to eCos is
likely to happen quite soon.

JFFS2 filesystem images of the current 'Familiar' distribution for the
Compaq iPAQ, along with appropriate kernels, are available at
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/people/dwmw2/familiar-0.3/

--
dwmw2

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