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f2fs versus jffs2

Posted Oct 11, 2012 9:37 UTC (Thu) by flok (subscriber, #17768)
Parent article: An f2fs teardown

What would be the advantage of f2fs over jffs2?

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f2fs versus jffs2

Posted Oct 11, 2012 10:04 UTC (Thu) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715) [Link]

It is designed for flash devices that expose themselves as block devices (like SSDs) and not for raw flash devices as jffs2 .. so they aren't really comparable.

f2fs versus jffs2

Posted Nov 16, 2012 15:31 UTC (Fri) by oak (guest, #2786) [Link]

And JFFS2 works really badly on file systems which sizes are in GBs as it AFAIK keeps the whole fs structure in RAM. From scalability point of view, UBIFS would be more reasonable comparison.