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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "David Mackay" <monitoreurope@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: JFFS
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 23:00:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15946.1003874432@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011023143913.42416.qmail@web20302.mail.yahoo.com>

monitoreurope@yahoo.co.uk said:
>  As we use /var for FIFO data storage on this system (many 8-32K
> files) we need a reliable predictable free space estimation in order
> to be able to maximise the number of stored files before we delete to
> add new. Therefore a better understanding of the inner workings of
> JFFS would be appreciated.

We make stuff up in jffs2_statfs(). You may be able to improve it if you 
include c->erasing_size in the calculation of 'avail', and you'll probably 
want to include the size of the blocks on the erase_pending_list too.

--
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-23 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-23 14:39 JFFS David Mackay
2001-10-23 22:00 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-11-07 18:20   ` JFFS David Mackay
2001-11-07 18:40     ` JFFS David Woodhouse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-29 13:28 Jffs lp4u
2004-09-29 15:32 ` Jffs Michael Moedt
2001-05-06 22:36 JFFS Jason Walker

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