Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:50:59 +0200 | From | Jörn Engel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix type mismatch in jffs. |
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On Wed, 10 September 2003 20:16:07 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:03:04PM +0100, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > > > Seriously, though, by now fs/jffs/* has only one real use - extracting > > data from old filesystem. IIRC, there was even a talk about having it go > > the way of ext and xiafs. He's dead, Jim... > > It isn't that dead - I get the occasional patch from people wanting to keep > it working, although I really wish people would send them to dwmw2 rather > than myself.
Yes, it still beats jffs2 in cases where people have <=5 flash blocks and want a r/w filesystem on them. Until David, myself or someone else finds the time to improve jffs2 for corner cases like this, jffs has a use - sadly.
Jörn
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