Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762157AbXEPEyu (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 00:54:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754419AbXEPEym (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 00:54:42 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:38843 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758612AbXEPEyl (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 00:54:41 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three From: David Woodhouse To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: John Stoffel , akpm@osdl.org, Evgeniy Polyakov , Albert Cahalan , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Oeser , Pekka Enberg , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Jan Engelhardt , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <20070515191926.GB1220@lazybastard.org> References: <20070515151919.GA32510@lazybastard.org> <17994.1241.436841.681216@stoffel.org> <20070515191926.GB1220@lazybastard.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:54:14 +0800 Message-Id: <1179291255.2859.195.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7.dwmw2.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: 1211 Lines: 31 On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:19 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007 15:07:05 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > > > > I've been semi watching this, and the only comment I really can give > > is that I hate the name. To me, logfs implies a filesystem for > > logging purposes, not for Flash hardware with wear leveling issues to > > be taken into account. > > Yeah, well, ... > > Two years ago when I started all this, I was looking for a good name. > All I could come up with sounded stupid, so I picked "LogFS" as a code > name. As soon as I find a better name, the code name should get > replaced. > > By now I still don't have anything better. All alternatives that were > proposed are just as bad - with the added disadvantage of being new and > not established yet. My hope of ever finding a better name is nearly > zero. Personally I'd just go for 'JFFS3'. After all, it has a better claim to the name than either of its predecessors :) -- dwmw2 - 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/