Re: NAND flash and JFFS(2)

Veli-Pekka Ylönen
2002-02-05T17:24:42Z

I am using 64 Mbyte chip and only 3 partial page writes is allowed. I
guess that Samsung models 16 MB to 64 MB allow 5 partial page writes and
Toshiba 64 M chip - the one I am using - allows 3.

Any possibility to increase the node size in JFFS to make it work also
with my chip?

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> JFFS ought to be OK on chips that can take ten write cycles per 512-byte
> page, because it uses writev to ensure that nodes are written in one go,
> and no node will be less than 52 bytes.
>
> On NAND flash chips which can do fewer than ten writes per page, JFFS
> probably won't work either.