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Subject: Re: Which filesystem can live on one flash sector?
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On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 23:02, fred wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using CRAMFS plus RAMFS on my board.
> And there is only one sector left for saving configuration data.
> Can I put a file system, e.g. JFFS, on it?

I'd make another block free and then do some sort of journalling from
userspace (each data block has a header with crc, size, header crc, and
revision). If you flash it boot block flash, the boot block may be the
place to find a couple small free sectors.