From: Abraham vd Merwe <abraham@2d3d.co.za>
To: MTD for Linux <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: safe flash filesystem
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:22:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010622102238.F1828@crystal.2d3d.co.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B32668F.8020000@asu.edu>; from Russ.Dill@asu.edu on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 14:26:39 -0700
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Hi Russ!
> If its just a config file, why make all this so complicated?
>
> struct node {
>
> u32 magic;
> char valid;
> u32 version;
> u32 data_crc;
> u32 hdr_crc;
> char data[DATA_SIZE];
> };
Yes, this is something in the lines I was thinking of. But what complicates
things is if you start taking things like avoiding damaged blocks into
account, wear levelling (this is fairly easy to solve) and keeping the flash
unfragmented.
--
Regards
Abraham
Walking on water wasn't built in a day.
-- Jack Kerouac
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-22 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-21 10:54 safe flash filesystem Abraham vd Merwe
2001-06-21 13:43 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-21 13:57 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2001-06-21 14:29 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-21 14:35 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2001-06-21 15:05 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-21 15:36 ` Chris Read
2001-06-21 15:09 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2001-06-21 15:34 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-21 19:34 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2001-06-21 19:47 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2001-06-21 15:11 ` Herman Oosthuysen
2001-06-21 17:54 ` Tim Riker
2001-06-21 19:43 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-21 19:35 ` Tim Riker
2001-06-21 19:56 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-21 21:17 ` Kyle Harris
2001-07-03 23:53 ` On the "safe filesystem" and write() topic Bjorn Wesen
2001-07-04 14:10 ` Vipin Malik
2001-07-05 18:16 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-07-06 13:40 ` Vipin Malik
2001-07-07 9:25 ` Bjorn Wesen
2001-07-07 13:06 ` Vipin Malik
2001-06-21 21:26 ` safe flash filesystem Russ Dill
2001-06-22 8:22 ` Abraham vd Merwe [this message]
[not found] ` <20010622102154.E1828@crystal.2d3d.co.za>
2001-06-22 17:23 ` Russ Dill
2001-06-25 7:45 ` Abraham vd Merwe
2001-06-25 7:59 ` Russ Dill
2001-06-25 14:11 ` Vipin Malik
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2001-06-21 16:05 Vipin Malik
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