Miscellaneous

This section contains the gathered list of different ideas and thoughts suggested by different people but have not yet highlighted/used in this document. Many of them may be quite useful.

1. Make the compression selectable per-file (may be using xattr).
   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-January/011645.html.

2. Make one more checksum mode when checksums are neither generated nor checked.
   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-January/011640.html.

3. Have special type of nodes where we may store static inode node's (and may be other's) attributes like UID and GID. Perhaps, the xattr support may be used here.
   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-January/011615.html.

4. Implement xattr support. There are a lot of cases when having it would be very handy.
   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-January/011617.html
   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-January/011632.html
   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-January/011644.html
   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-January/011556.html

5. Make compression selectable per file.
   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-January/011641.html

6. Have the end magic bitmask on all note types in order to be able to quickly detect the partially written nodes.
   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-January/011529.html.

7. Increase the maximum node size. We may keep several pages in one node. This leads to better compression and less memory consumption. Use zisofs-like technique when reading the node with several pages of data (compressed).
   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-January/011672.html
   and following.

8. Implement write-back cache in JFFS3.
   http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-January/011672.html
   and following.