From: "Artem B. Bityutskiy" <dedekind@yandex.ru>
To: Bernhard Priewasser <priewasser@gmail.com>
Cc: MTD mailing list <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: How to produce dirty space
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:43:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4370B9A3.2000809@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4370AA55.6060703@gmail.com>
Bernhard Priewasser wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to generate some dirty space in a mounted JFFS2 for test
> purposes. I tried to get the FS dirty for hours now... but I couldn't
> compete against the erase_pending list. (BTW: how is kupdated set up?)
> Maybe... I'm not the first one who wants to do some tests on a dirty FS,
> perhaps there is some existing code... :-)
Create a file and make a small change in it. It is unlikely that the
corresponding eraseblock will be garbage collected soon, so you'll have
dirty space.
For the information when things are flushed see "/proc/sys/vm - the
virtual memory subsystem" at Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
--
Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-08 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-08 13:38 How to produce dirty space Bernhard Priewasser
2005-11-08 14:43 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy [this message]
2005-11-09 13:33 ` Bernhard Priewasser
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