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Message-ID: <1331136246.32316.39.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:04:06 +0200 From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com> To: Richard Weinberger <rw@...utronix.de> Cc: linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, tim.bird@...sony.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] UBI checkpointing support Another not-so-technical comment. On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 21:06 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > The following patch set implements checkpointing support for > UBI. Checkpointing is an optional feature which stores the physical to > logical eraseblock relations in a checkpointing superblock to reduce > the initialization time of UBI. So this is basically about improving scalability and "mount" time. This has nothing to do with checkpointing most people are aware of. Confusing... Really, this tirm is already reserved by file-systems, things like virtual machines where it means "freezing" the contents and doing COW when changing the freezed blocks and guaranteeing the ability to "roll-back" to the checkpointed data. Please, consider an option of picking a different name. In JFFS2 a "similar" thing was called "summaries", and even this is better than "checkpoint", I think. -- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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