linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] UBIFS

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Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:20:47 +0200
From:	Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>
To:	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com>
Cc:	ext Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, joern@...ybastard.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] UBIFS - new flash file system

On Mon, 31 March 2008 15:47:05 +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> >
> >And how does it compare to logfs?
> 
> We don't know a lot about logfs, so you will really have to make
> your own comparison.  However our general impressions are as follows:
> 
> 1. In our testing logfs file operations seem to be much slower,
> see http://osl.sed.hu/wiki/ubifs/index.php/IOzone

Shiny numbers!  Performance has improved significantly in the last six
month.  Still worth a closer look.

> 3. logfs does not seem to have bad-block handling.

Bad blocks at mkfs time are handled, blocks turning bad later on aren't
yet.

> 4. logfs does not seem to have wear-leveling.

It does.

Jörn

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