Re: data loss on jffs2 filesystem on dataflash

["Artem B. Bityutskiy" <dedekind@yandex.ru>]

Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> Peter Menzebach wrote:
> 
>> No, not at then moment. If I have some time, I can try to rewrite the 
>> chipset driver, that it reports a sector size of 1024.
> 
> 
> I glanced at the manual. Uhh, DataFlash is very specific beast. It 
> suppoers page program with built-in erase command... So DataFlash 
> effectively may be considered as a block device. Then you may use any FS 
> on it providing you have wrote proper driver? Why do you need JFFS2 then 
> :-) ?
> 
> JFFS2 orients to "classical" flashes. They have no "write page with 
> built-in erase" operation.
> 
> Didn't read the manual carefully, what do they refer by "Main memory 
> array"?
> 
> BTW, having 8*1056 write buffer is not perfect ides, better make it as 
> small as possible, i.e., 1056 bytes.
> 
Ups, I sent the mail to LKML instead of MTD ML by accident :-)

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.