FreeBSD's embedded agenda

marty fouts mf.danger at gmail.com
Thu May 25 16:01:21 PDT 2006


On 5/25/06, Ben Kelly <bkelly at 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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