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From: Fabio Giovagnini <fabio.giovagnini@aurion-tech.com>
To: angelo <angelo70@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: erase block < 8KiB
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:47:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317905270.4526.8.camel@AURIO02> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8977DF.1030808@gmail.com>

I think the best solution is to modify mkfs.jffs2 tool.
So your sectors are smaller and you flash better used.

Regards


Il giorno lun, 03/10/2011 alle 10.52 +0200, angelo ha scritto:
> Hi all,
> 
> i read several mail about this limitation.
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-February/033851.html
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-June/036498.html
> 
> 
> I have a 4 KiB erase-size, common of some SST nor flash'es like mine 
> (SST 39VF3201B).
> 
>  From all the posts i read here in the list, there seems not to be any 
> solution guaranteed.
> 
> The tricky change to mkfs.jffs2 don't work for me. It seems to work for 
> small files, but i still get error messages copying a 600KB file in the 
> partition.
> If it's true that the minimal jffs2 block is 4KB + some bytes, of course 
> the patch to mkfs.jffs2 can't work.
> 
> Some one suggested the "virtual erase block" solution. I would like to 
> try to implement it, if i have the time.
> 
> In any case, for the common users, is there maybe another flash file 
> system that can work with 4KiB erase size ?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Regards
> 
> Angelo Dureghello
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-06 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-03  8:52 erase block < 8KiB angelo
2011-10-06 12:47 ` Fabio Giovagnini [this message]
2011-10-14  8:45 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-14  8:50   ` angelo
2011-10-14  9:15     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-14  9:34       ` angelo
2011-12-16 12:59         ` Guillaume LECERF

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