From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261377AbTIKQvn (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:51:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261383AbTIKQvn (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:51:43 -0400 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.233.138]:15844 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261377AbTIKQvm (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:51:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:50:59 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, Linus Torvalds , Geert Uytterhoeven , Stephen Hemminger , jffs-dev@axis.com, Linux Kernel Development , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs. Message-ID: <20030911165059.GC3989@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20030910181847.GO454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030910190303.GP454@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030910201607.G30046@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20030910201607.G30046@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 10 September 2003 20:16:07 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:03:04PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > > > Seriously, though, by now fs/jffs/* has only one real use - extracting > > data from old filesystem. IIRC, there was even a talk about having it go > > the way of ext and xiafs. He's dead, Jim... > > It isn't that dead - I get the occasional patch from people wanting to keep > it working, although I really wish people would send them to dwmw2 rather > than myself. Yes, it still beats jffs2 in cases where people have <=5 flash blocks and want a r/w filesystem on them. Until David, myself or someone else finds the time to improve jffs2 for corner cases like this, jffs has a use - sadly. Jörn -- When you close your hand, you own nothing. When you open it up, you own the whole world. -- Li Mu Bai in Tiger & Dragon