Re: mkfs.jffs2 and mksum

Artem Bityutskiy
2007-09-19T12:50:42Z

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.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)