Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Apr 2008 23:09:07 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: UBIFS vs Logfs (was [RFC PATCH] UBIFS - new flash file system) |
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Hi!
> For me, the motivators to wait for LogFS are mainly the > facts that it > can work on traditional block devices, and not only on > pure flash: > > 1. It works on normal block devices and it supports > transparent compression > > Today, a 64 GB SSD/flash-based media costs ~about the > same as a 1 TB > hard disk. This makes flash very expensive to use; > compression can > compensate that cost a bit (will depend on the usage, of > course). > > I believe there is no other Linux filesystem which can > do transparent > compression on block devices.
I'd like compressed filesystem for maps and lingvistic data... but will the flash flesystems have 'reasonable' performance when used on harddrive? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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