On 12/22/14 12:12 PM, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org
<mailto:jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
> Is there any hardware out there that uses it?
Aside from the hardware already mentioned in this thread, which Fedora
doesn't run on, there might be some generic ARM boards that could use
it.
One use that quickly comes to mind is USB Flash drives... check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS
I'm not an F2FS expert by any means, but I think that's correct.
from Neil Brown's LWN writeup a while ago:
f2fs is not targeted at raw flash devices, but rather at the
specific
hardware that is commonly available to consumers — SSDs, eMMC, SD
cards, and other flash storage with an FTL (flash translation layer)
already built in.
I'd encourage those advocating for enabling this to put it through its paces,
and see where it's at, rather than keying off phoronix & ubuntu.
In particular, getting [x]fstests up & running on f2fs shouldn't be too hard,
and it would be good to see if it uncovers any problems.
There was a patch to enable it on the list:
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-06/msg00030.html
but it's not merged... I'll ask Dave about that.
Fedora succeeds when committed people share their time & effort .. can you
give f2fs a go w/ [x]fstests and report back? Scratch that itch. ;)
I can give you a hand running xfstests if you need it.
-Eric