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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2006 15:59:14 -0700
From:      "marty fouts" <mf.danger@gmail.com>
To:        "Ben Kelly" <bkelly@vadev.org>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, small@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's embedded agenda
Message-ID:  <9f7850090605251559g5e3802e1u23180bd823d28a3b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200605251628.58158.bkelly@vadev.org>
References:  <3500.1148571492@critter.freebsd.dk> <200605251628.58158.bkelly@vadev.org>

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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.



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