On Jul 21 2008, at 13:39, C. Scott Ananian was caught saying: > > 2) JFFS2's behavior when the file system is almost full. When it gets > > almost full, it can spend all its time trying to garbage collect, and > > you can lose completely (the system sort of gets the "slows", and grinds > > to a halt). > > > > As to 2), there are patches done by Nokia (deployed on the N800 and > > similar devices) that reserve some extra space and report out of space > > before the system "gets the slows". These are in Dave's incoming queue > > to merge into JFFS2 the last I heard. I don't know if he's merged them. > > These are less critical, IMO. I have filled up NAND, and "the slows" > are not debilitating. The issues above are. We should encourage Dave > to fix this issue and the other known JFFS2 bugs (trac #6480, for > instance) -- or get dsaxena to do so -- for 9.1.
#6480 is fixed as of yesterday, should be in next joyride. I'll be re-doing Nokia's patches so that they go upstream if we still want them after 8.2 is out; however, I don't think the approach used by them actually helps us. We already have a very limited amount of storage space and reserving space for the root user just reduces what the end user can actually use. I think analyzing performance of non-JFFS2 file systems and picking a replacement should be a high-priority item for 9.1 update. ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
