Re: soft update vs journaling?

[Jörn Engel]

On Sun, 22 January 2006 20:08:17 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> it stands for "logging" since jffs2 at least is NOT a journalling
> filesystem.... but a logging one. I assume jffs is too.

s/logging/log-structured/

People could (and did) argue that jffs[|2] is a journalling
filesystem consisting of a journal and _no_ regular storage.  Which is
quite sane.  Having a live-fast, die-young journal confined to a small
portion of the device would kill it quickly, no doubt.

Jörn

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