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From: Andy Hawkins <a.hawkins@cabletime.com>
To: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Large JFFS2 filesystem problem
Date: 27 Jul 2004 14:44:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1090935846.17545.3.camel@adh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1090930297.20889.93.camel@thomas.tec.linutronix.de>

Hi,

On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 13:11, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> It should be easy to fix the scan code. All we have to do is to reduce
> the chunk size which we read in one go. The functionality to do so is
> already there and its simple to make it work
> 
> Can you try the following patch ?
> Please let me know if it works.

[snip patch]

Apologies...I didn't read the code fully enough to realise that it would
use that block size in a loop to read the entire flash. I changed the
'kmalloc' to a 'vmalloc' and this appeared to work. Your patch also has
the desired effect.

> > Previously, someone recommended waiting for YAFFS2, as this is likely to
> > be more efficient with large filesystems. Does anyone have any idea as
> > to when this is likely to be available?
> 
> Ask on the YAFFS mailing list.

Ok, I'll do this.

Thanks.

Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-27 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-27 10:25 Large JFFS2 filesystem problem Andy Hawkins
2004-07-27 12:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-07-27 13:44   ` Andy Hawkins [this message]
2004-07-27 14:10     ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-07-28 14:17   ` Andy Hawkins

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