From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "invictus rm" <invictus_rm@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Jffs2 on MTD
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:32:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14793.1028068326@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F16pVyLridnGiAw8HQE00022566@hotmail.com>
invictus_rm@hotmail.com said:
> I am not copying the jffs2 image on to the /dev/mtd3 before mouting
> but rather copying the files after mounting ( i mean putting the
> required files after i have mounted the /dev/mtdblock3)
> The reason why i am doing this is becoz i do not need the directory
> structure of a regular filesystem.
Well, mkfs.jffs2 can happily make an image of a file system with no
subdirectories too.
> Does this make any difference in terms of flash usage as compared to
> the case where i would have copied the jffs2.img to mtd3 and then
> mounted it .
Basically, no. The image created by mkfs.jffs2 will be _slightly_ smaller
to start with, because it's not created incrementally. The difference
should be negligible though, and will go away when the flash gets
garbage-collected anyway.
--
dwmw2
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2002-07-27 12:09 Jffs2 on MTD invictus rm
2002-07-30 22:32 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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