From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: angelo <angelo70@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: erase block < 8KiB
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:45:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1318581933.12351.70.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8977DF.1030808@gmail.com>
On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 10:52 +0200, angelo wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i read several mail about this limitation.
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-February/033851.html
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-June/036498.html
>
>
> I have a 4 KiB erase-size, common of some SST nor flash'es like mine
> (SST 39VF3201B).
>
> From all the posts i read here in the list, there seems not to be any
> solution guaranteed.
>
> The tricky change to mkfs.jffs2 don't work for me. It seems to work for
> small files, but i still get error messages copying a 600KB file in the
> partition.
> If it's true that the minimal jffs2 block is 4KB + some bytes, of course
> the patch to mkfs.jffs2 can't work.
>
> Some one suggested the "virtual erase block" solution. I would like to
> try to implement it, if i have the time.
>
> In any case, for the common users, is there maybe another flash file
> system that can work with 4KiB erase size ?
Just hack your driver and make it emulate larger eraseblocks and make
JFFS2 happy. Should not be difficult.
--
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-14 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-03 8:52 erase block < 8KiB angelo
2011-10-06 12:47 ` Fabio Giovagnini
2011-10-14 8:45 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2011-10-14 8:50 ` angelo
2011-10-14 9:15 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-10-14 9:34 ` angelo
2011-12-16 12:59 ` Guillaume LECERF
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