Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 2003 17:35:19 +0400 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3) |
| |
Jussi Laako wrote:
>On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 10:19, Yury Umanets wrote: > > > >>>So basically we do have pretty powerful hardware with huge storage and >>>memory and now need a FS which is fast and reliable even on flash >>>memory. JFFS2 is nice but way too slow once one has bigger sizes. >>> >>> >>I think this is more then enough for running reiser4. Reiser4 is a linux >>filesystem first of all, and linux is able to be ran on even worse >>hardware then you have. >> >> > >Most Linux filesystems can't be used properly with flash devices because >of unability to handle write errors caused by flash wearing out. FS >should mark the block as bad and relocate the data. Some devices report >"read correctly, but had ECC" and when such happens data should also be >relocated to not worn-out place and block marked as bad. > > > > I would be happy to accept a patch fixing that, or to fix it for a fee, or to fix it if we somehow get more funding from somewhere next year.;-)
-- Hans
- 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/
| |