Re: jff2 filesystem in vanilla

[David Woodhouse]

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 15:38 +0200, Daniel Egger wrote:
> On 05.06.2004, at 10:46, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > If you're going to use JFFS2 on CF, you should really investigate using
> > the write-buffer we implemented for NAND flash, but without the ECC
> > parts.

> However, do you have any specific pointers where to look?

fs/jffs2/wbuf.c has most of the magic for buffering writes on NAND
flash. We want to use that, but we want to avoid the ECC handling which
we also do on NAND flash.

The other thing that'll benefit you is checkpointing, which I keep
threatening to implement but haven't yet got round to.

-- 
dwmw2


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