From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: Timo Piiroinen <timo.piiroinen@tut.fi>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: mkfs.jffs2 and mksum
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:50:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190206217.14370.155.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709191538050.1701@assari.cc.tut.fi>
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 15:45 +0300, Timo Piiroinen wrote:
> I have done jffs2 image with --pad option to match my flash size and it
> works fine. However, if I want to use summary, the sumtool creates smaller
> image than original padded jffs2 image and the flash isn't fully used.
> I write the jffs2 image using bootloader, where I set the size of the
> flashing length match the filesize. Is there any way to pad summed
> image to larger so that i can fully occupy flash?
> sumtool -p option doesn't allow to set filesize.
If your flash is NAND flash I do not recommend you to pad it because
writing FFs may have side-effects.
--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-19 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 12:45 mkfs.jffs2 and mksum Timo Piiroinen
2007-09-19 12:50 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2007-09-19 14:03 ` Timo Piiroinen
2007-09-19 14:13 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-09-19 14:24 ` Timo Piiroinen
2007-09-19 14:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-09-19 17:12 ` Timo Piiroinen
2007-09-19 21:12 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2007-09-20 6:20 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-09-20 6:48 ` About MLC Nand Driver Yongsheng Liu
2007-10-09 13:33 ` falls huang
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