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From: "marty fouts" <mf.danger@gmail.com>
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Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda
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On 5/25/06, Ben Kelly <bkelly@vadev.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 May 2006 11:38 am, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > Writing a flash-friendly-filesystem would be a good project.
>
> Would it be reasonable to try porting JFFS2 or are their reasons to write
> something from scratch?
>

JFFS2 is ok for NOR flash, but has terrible performance problems on
NAND flash, that seem to grow exponentially with the size of the
flash.  I'd recommend not basing a design on it.