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Not "Fourth" --- Fifth!

Posted Sep 17, 2002 14:14 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: Not "Fourth" --- Fifth! by AnswerGuy
Parent article: Linus merges XFS

Good point - JFFS has been in for some time. The original JFFS came from Axis, but it's been in Red Hat's hands for some time now. So XFS is the fourth journaling filesystem for normal uses; the requirements of flash devices make JFFS relatively unappealing (i.e. slow) for anything else.

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