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on 3/19/01 6:12 AM, Matthew Robinson at matthew.robinson_at_torrington.net
wrote:
> Also can someone let me know the difference between JFFS and JFFS2.
> Currently, I have something along the lines of 'JFFS2 is a rewrite of JFFS
> which includes support for compression'. Is this the only difference or
> are there other changes aswell.
Compression support is a big part of JFFS2, as is a more robust
error-detection algorithm (CRC32), runtime garbage collection, and a new
inode structure (now there are directory entry inodes and data block inodes,
whereas there was just a kitchen-sink inode in the past).
-jd
Received on Mon Mar 19 2001 - 12:13:57 EST
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