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From: Xavier DEBREUIL <xde@inventel.fr>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Gadbois <martin.gadbois@colubris.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: unable to modify jffs2
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:21:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B264F9D.9321AAE5@inventel.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9954.992364198@redhat.com

David Woodhouse a écrit :
> 
> xde@inventel.fr said:
> > the file I have written on my 2Meg partition was only 1.5Meg
> 
> Sorry, I missed that. Too big.
> 
> > So if you say that it needs at least 5 free blocks, it means that I
> > need 5 blocks of 128KB, so at least 650KB free!!! Is it necessary ?
> 
> > In fact if this is true, a 2MB partition is to short...
> 
> At the moment, yes. JFFS2 requires a _lot_ of slack space. Actually it's
> probably safe to cut that down to three. Nobody's yet proved that though -
> YMMV. Eventually I intend to cut it down to one or two and prove that it's
> safe.
> 
> --
> dwmw2

It seems to work with a 4MB partition.

So, is it possible to define the size of a block inferior to the size of
the erase block ?
For example, erase size is 128KB and block size is 64KB.

Xavier

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-12 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-07  9:04 HELP Abraham vd Merwe
2001-06-07  9:35 ` HELP David Woodhouse
2001-06-07  9:43   ` HELP Abraham vd Merwe
2001-06-07 14:30     ` HELP Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-07  9:44   ` HELP David Woodhouse
2001-06-07  9:47     ` HELP Abraham vd Merwe
2001-06-07 17:21     ` HELP Russ Dill
2001-06-07 20:01     ` HELP David Woodhouse
2001-06-11 16:04       ` problem with zlib.o Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-12  8:14       ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-12  9:19         ` problem with util Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-12 11:36           ` unable to mount jffs2 Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-12 12:19           ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-12 12:30             ` Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-12 12:35             ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-12 13:56               ` Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-12 15:19                 ` unable to modify jffs2 Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-12 15:31                   ` Martin Gadbois
2001-06-12 15:46                   ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-12 16:26                     ` Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-12 16:29                     ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-12 16:38                       ` Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-12 16:43                       ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-12 17:21                         ` Xavier DEBREUIL [this message]
2001-06-12 21:10                         ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-12 12:36             ` unable to mount jffs2 Xavier DEBREUIL
2001-06-07  9:48   ` HELP David Woodhouse
2001-06-07  9:51     ` HELP Abraham vd Merwe
2001-06-07 10:16     ` HELP David Woodhouse
2001-06-07 14:23   ` HELP Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-12 15:20 unable to modify jffs2 Frederic Giasson

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