From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030213AbWAXChY (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:37:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030225AbWAXChY (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:37:24 -0500 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.233.138]:54170 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030213AbWAXChX (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:37:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:33:58 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Adrian Bunk , Jan Engelhardt , John Richard Moser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: soft update vs journaling? Message-ID: <20060124023357.GA4064@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <43D3295E.8040702@comcast.net> <20060122190533.GH10003@stusta.de> <1137956898.3328.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1137956898.3328.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 22 January 2006 20:08:17 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > it stands for "logging" since jffs2 at least is NOT a journalling > filesystem.... but a logging one. I assume jffs is too. s/logging/log-structured/ People could (and did) argue that jffs[|2] is a journalling filesystem consisting of a journal and _no_ regular storage. Which is quite sane. Having a live-fast, die-young journal confined to a small portion of the device would kill it quickly, no doubt. Jörn -- Das Aufregende am Schreiben ist es, eine Ordnung zu schaffen, wo vorher keine existiert hat. -- Doris Lessing