Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3)

From: Bernd Eckenfels (ecki@calista.eckenfels.6bone.ka-ip.net)
Date: Sun Jul 27 2003 - 10:32:34 EST


In article <1059315409.10692.215.camel@sonja> you wrote:
> A device layer that shuffles around sectors would have interesting
> semantics, like hardly being portable because one would have to use
> exactly the same device driver with the same parameters to use the
> filesystem and thus retrieve the data.

In fact it should not shuffle around, but support the filesystem in
requesting new free blocks.

But I see that FS must support the flash by for example beeing prepared to
move often used blocks (super blocks, bitmaps, ... ) around.

Greetings
Bernd

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