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Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 07:45:31 +0100
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Cc: Leon Zhang <leoncamel@gmail.com>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
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Subject: Re: Mounting large JFFS2 causes other process to stop running!
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On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 15:52 +1000, Benny Chen wrote:
> Yap, that is right. My mtd is quite old it is packaged with linux-2.4.21
> kernel, so I checked the dates it is about 25/07/2002.  I guess
> mtd-linux is not supporting 2.4.x anymore.  We will probably have to cop
> this penalty until we upgrade our kernel.

If this is still a real problem in 2.4.31, then we would be interested
in fixing it. The background process _should_ be correctly yielding if
there are other processes to run.

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dwmw2