Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:01:45 +0100 | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] UBI checkpointing support |
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Am 07.03.2012 17:04, schrieb Artem Bityutskiy: > Another not-so-technical comment. > > On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 21:06 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> The following patch set implements checkpointing support for >> UBI. Checkpointing is an optional feature which stores the physical to >> logical eraseblock relations in a checkpointing superblock to reduce >> the initialization time of UBI. > > So this is basically about improving scalability and "mount" time. This > has nothing to do with checkpointing most people are aware of. > Confusing...
Mostly because "checkpointing" is a buzzword. ;-)
> Really, this tirm is already reserved by file-systems, things like > virtual machines where it means "freezing" the contents and doing COW > when changing the freezed blocks and guaranteeing the ability to > "roll-back" to the checkpointed data. > > Please, consider an option of picking a different name. In JFFS2 a > "similar" thing was called "summaries", and even this is better than > "checkpoint", I think.
What about "Erase block indexing"? Basically a checkpoint is an index...
Thanks, //richard
P.s: I'm really bad in picking names.
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