Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:25:01 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
       John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: soft update vs journaling?
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On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 08:08:17PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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.

Ah, sorry.

It seems I confused this with Reiser4 and it's wandering logs.

cu
Adrian

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