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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.fr>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: jffs2 Erase Block Summary overhead
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:05:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1171879537.7600.5.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D47C92.8080908@parrot.fr>

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:30 +0100, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> after doing some test on a 64MB nand flash, we see that only 50 MB can 
> be stored on the filesystem [1]. The extra 10 MB are taken by jffs2 summary.
> If we disable jffs2 sumary in the kernel, the 10MB become available.
> 
> Is there a way to reduce this overhead ?
> 20 % seems really big.

There's a lot of redundant information in the summary; I think we could
halve it fairly easily. I don't believe your 20% figure though -- that's
too high. You really can't rely on the output of df.

-- 
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-19 10:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-15 15:30 jffs2 Erase Block Summary overhead Matthieu CASTET
2007-02-19 10:05 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2007-02-19 10:58   ` Matthieu CASTET
2007-02-19 11:15     ` Matthieu CASTET
2007-02-19 11:10 ` Indrek Kruusa
2007-02-20  8:45   ` Matthieu CASTET

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