[Server-devel] [support-gang] jffs2 vs ubifs vs ext4 space-efficiency question

Gonzalo Odiard godiard at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 08:28:58 EST 2015


Would be nice explore F2FS (Flash-Friendly File System)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:28 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Yes, jffs2 compresses data.  That's why it is so slow.  That's why SD
> > card is faster than it should be otherwise.
>
> +1 on James reply. Also a quick note: AIUI, jffs2 gets much of its
> storage advantage from better packing of directory structures &
> metadata.
>
> The overall compression savings include these, and look great. The
> files contents are not _that_ compressible :-)
>
>
>
> m
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