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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: "Xiaogeng (Shawn) Jin" <xjin@redswitch.com>
Cc: Kenneth Johansson <kenneth.johansson@etx.ericsson.se>,
	Mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: writing to jffs2 is so slow?
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:48:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020906174829.GA3885@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D78E270.6020203@redswitch.com>

On Fri, 6 September 2002 10:14:24 -0700, Xiaogeng (Shawn) Jin wrote:
> >Maybe it's possible to do a format command that creates a disk that is
> >empty and prevents the jffs2 code to reformat every block.
> 
> A format command? What command formats MTD devices (my flash is NOR)? 
> Thanks.

Try eraseall from the utils.
With that, jffs2 just writes the erase markers to flash, 12 bytes per
erase block.

Jörn

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, but
not tried it.
-- Donald Knuth

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-06 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-05 21:09 writing to jffs2 is so slow? Xiaogeng (Shawn) Jin
2002-09-06  7:15 ` Thomas TESTASECCA
2002-09-06 12:08 ` Kenneth Johansson
2002-09-06 17:14   ` Xiaogeng (Shawn) Jin
2002-09-06 17:48     ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2002-09-06 18:32       ` Xiaogeng (Shawn) Jin
2002-09-06 18:54         ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-06 21:20           ` Joakim Tjernlund
2002-09-06 21:30             ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-06 18:57         ` Jörn Engel

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