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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:21:01 -0500
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lindsay Roberts <lindsay.roberts.os@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Add romfs version 2
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:36:35AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:01:48 +1000 "Lindsay Roberts" <lindsay.roberts.os@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > * Increases romfs partition size limit from 2GB to 4GB.

That seems worthwhile.

> > * Adds new derivative of romfs filesystem (rom2fs) with
> >   block aligned regular file data to bring performance
> >   parity with ext2/3. This is about 225% of the read
> >   speed of the existing romfs.

Doesn't that make these filesystems much bigger? By, on average, .5k
per file? Or, if I'm understanding things correctly, ~1k?

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