Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 May 2007 15:53:19 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three |
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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.
> flashfs works for me. It's longer, but hey, that's ok. Even flshfs > might work. Oh wait, flesh? flash? flush? Too confusing... :-)
Maybe. FFS or flash filesystem already exists. And YAFFS, yet another flash filesystem, would be older than flashfs.
My experience is that no matter which name I pick, people will complain anyway. Previous suggestions included: jffs3 jefs engelfs poofs crapfs sweetfs cutefs dynamic journaling fs - djofs tfsfkal - the file system formerly known as logfs
Plus today: FFFS flashfs fredfs bob shizzle
Imo they all suck. LogFS also sucks, but it allows me to make a stupid joke and keep my logfs.org domain.
Jörn
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