Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751316AbWAVTI1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:08:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751319AbWAVTI1 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:08:27 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:53952 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751316AbWAVTI0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:08:26 -0500 Subject: Re: soft update vs journaling? From: Arjan van de Ven To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Jan Engelhardt , John Richard Moser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060122190533.GH10003@stusta.de> References: <43D3295E.8040702@comcast.net> <20060122190533.GH10003@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:08:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1137956898.3328.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 776 Lines: 19 On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 20:05 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:51:10AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >... > > - I would not use a journalling filesystem at all on media that degrades > > faster as harddisks (flash drives, CD-RWs/DVD-RWs/RAMs). > > There are specially-crafted filesystems for that, mostly jffs and udf. > >... > > [ ] you know what the "j" in "jffs" stands for it stands for "logging" since jffs2 at least is NOT a journalling filesystem.... but a logging one. I assume jffs is too. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/