From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.198] helo=moskovskaya.fh-wedel.de) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.42 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1CfhIt-0003pP-Qy for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:19:38 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:19:23 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: "Gareth Bult (Encryptec)" Message-ID: <20041218161923.GD1083@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <1103152743.15913.33.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> <41C0D3AC.3050801@us.ibm.com> <1103158974.15929.37.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> <1103201631.25765.7.camel@weaponx.rchland.ibm.com> <1103232128.15927.70.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> <41C1FDFF.3020308@us.ibm.com> <1103233669.15929.81.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1103233669.15929.81.camel@squizzey.bult.co.uk> Cc: Linux MTD Subject: Re: JFFS2 mount time List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 16 December 2004 21:47:49 +0000, Gareth Bult (Encryptec) wrote: > > blkmtd.c is pretty much a rewrite, less than half the size and uses the > system buffer cache instead of reading / writing directly to the device. > This boosts performance x 3 on read x lots on write. [I get x 100 > faster] (albeit you lose bad block detection on write) > > If anyone's interested in the code, let me know and I'll clean it up and > post it .. however it'll be a new file and not a patch. Sure am! If the code lives up to your promises I'd like to read it (might learn something new) and possibly use it sometime soon. Jörn -- The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra