Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762011AbXESPGI (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 11:06:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758643AbXESPFz (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 11:05:55 -0400 Received: from mail.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.156]:52656 "EHLO mail.acc.umu.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758753AbXESPFy (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 May 2007 11:05:54 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1192 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 11:05:54 EDT Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 16:45:56 +0200 From: David Weinehall To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: John Stoffel , Jamie Lokier , David Woodhouse , 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three Message-ID: <20070519144556.GS11766@vasa.acc.umu.se> Mail-Followup-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , John Stoffel , Jamie Lokier , David Woodhouse , 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 References: <20070515151919.GA32510@lazybastard.org> <17994.1241.436841.681216@stoffel.org> <20070515191926.GB1220@lazybastard.org> <1179291255.2859.195.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20070516110933.GA5472@lazybastard.org> <20070516113434.GC20482@mail.shareable.org> <20070516115003.GD5472@lazybastard.org> <17995.2550.581854.8393@stoffel.org> <20070516135318.GK5472@lazybastard.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070516135318.GK5472@lazybastard.org> X-Editor: Vi Improved X-Accept-Language: Swedish, English X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7ACE 0FB0 7A74 F994 9B36 E1D1 D14E 8526 DC47 CA16 X-GPG-Key: http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/files/pub_dc47ca16.gpg.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1266 Lines: 32 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:53:19PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:41:10 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > > Jörn> On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:34:34 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > > Jörn> How many of you have worked for IBM before? Vowels are not > > evil. ;) > > > > Nope, they're not. I just think that LogFS isn't descriptive enough, > > or more accurately, is the *wrong* description of this filesystem. > > That was the whole point. JFFS2, the journaling flash filesystem, is a > strictly log-structured filesystem. LogFS has a journal. > > It is also the filesystem that tries to scale logarithmically, as Arnd > has noted. Maybe I should call it Log2 to emphesize this point. Log1 > would be horrible scalability. So, log2fs... Sounds great to me. [snip] Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/ - 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/