Flash disks and FFS layout heuristics

[Martin Fouts]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Dillon [mailto:dillon at apollo.backplane.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:15 PM
> To: Martin Fouts
> Cc: qpadla at gmail.com; freebsd-arch at freebsd.org; Christopher 
> Arnold; arch at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Flash disks and FFS layout heuristics

> You know as well as I do that embedded projects are 
> ALWAYS a trivial subset of something.

No, I don't know that. It is hard to "know" something that is not true.

> Until you get to the level of  sophistication of
> an iPhone.

Although Apple is getting much hype about the sophistication of the
iPhone, we've been shipping convergent devices of that complexity for
some time now. Apple have better industrial design, but they're not
doing anything, other than the touch screen, that we haven't already
done.

You are now *starting* to understand the level of complexity of CE
embedded devices.

> My interest is in large scale systems, OF COURSE I'm 
> approaching the problem from the point of view
> of large scale systems and not small
> scale systems.  Don't be silly.

Actually, Matt, it's you, by trying to solve a complex embedded systems
problem as if it were a 'degenerate' large scale systems problem, who
are "being silly."  You keep handing me crowbars when I need a scapel.