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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Ashok M Padmanaban <ashokmp@sasken.com>
Cc: MTD for Linux <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	JFFS mailing list <jffs-dev@axis.com>
Subject: Re: Erase Sector Size
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:33:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16243.998375596@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B824989.F4626DBE@sasken.com>

ashokmp@sasken.com said:
>  Iam using intels 28F128 Strata flash, According to its data sheet its
> erase sector size is 128KB. But with 2.4.2 kernel + rmk2 (patch,diff)
> + mtd patch , the erase sector size is 256KB.

It's not configurable. You probably have two 16-bit devices arranged in a 
pair to give a 32-bit data path - which doubles the effective erase size 
because it doesn't make sense to erase one half at a time.

We just need to fix JFFS2 so it isn't so greedy.

--
dwmw2

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-21  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-21 11:44 Erase Sector Size Ashok M Padmanaban
2001-08-21  6:33 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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2002-12-30 12:47 Erase sector size Paul Nash
2002-12-23 18:19 Rekha Nagananda
     [not found] <20010831124235.27912.qmail@mailweb26.rediffmail.com>
2001-08-31 12:50 ` Erase Sector Size Abraham vd Merwe
2001-08-21 11:37 Kremer, Alex

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