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Message-Id: <1179330596.2859.248.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:49:55 +0800
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jörn Engel <joern@...ybastard.org>,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, Albert Cahalan <acahalan@...il.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:34 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Reduced testability, mainly. Also potentially reduced usefulness.
CONFIG_MTD has never been a barrier to testability. JFFS2 depends on MTD
and had _most_ of its early testing and development done on the 'fake'
mtdram device.
Utility is a factor of the underlying design -- a filesystem designed
for flash really isn't suited to block devices.
--
dwmw2
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