Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758324AbXEPPuh (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 11:50:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762279AbXEPPuS (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 11:50:18 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:33234 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762061AbXEPPuQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 11:50:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three From: David Woodhouse To: Andrew Morton Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Albert Cahalan , Thomas Gleixner , Jan Engelhardt , Evgeniy Polyakov , Pekka Enberg , Greg KH , Ingo Oeser In-Reply-To: <20070516083408.dcd9dd78.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070515151919.GA32510@lazybastard.org> <20070515133759.9ee434a2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1179317240.2859.222.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070516083408.dcd9dd78.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:49:55 +0800 Message-Id: <1179330596.2859.248.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7.dwmw2.2) 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: 660 Lines: 18 On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:34 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Reduced testability, mainly. Also potentially reduced usefulness. CONFIG_MTD has never been a barrier to testability. JFFS2 depends on MTD and had _most_ of its early testing and development done on the 'fake' mtdram device. Utility is a factor of the underlying design -- a filesystem designed for flash really isn't suited to block devices. -- 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/