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Justin Treon wrote:
> For NAND I think there is a simple flow chart to pick your filing system.
>
> Do you have a partition bigger than 256 MBytes?
> If YES: Use UBIFS (@128 MB you can argue the point)
> If NO: Do you have a LOT of RAM?
> 	If YES: Use YAFFS2 (It is fast, but RAM hungry)
> 	If NO: Use JFFS2
>   

With 128MB and/or 1GB partitions, does YAFFS2 use more memory than 
UBIFS?  It does seem to me that YAFFS2 mounts a tad faster, though I 
haven't broken out the stopwatch or anything (yet).


b.g.

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