From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([195.37.86.23]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 18LkkM-0006CW-00 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:48:26 +0000 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:18:58 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: fred Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Which filesystem can live on one flash sector? Message-ID: <20021210141858.GC23134@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20021210071208.F30D7154A1@dragon.actrix.co.nz> <000101c2a053$f2732f80$940879c8@sc.mcel.mot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <000101c2a053$f2732f80$940879c8@sc.mcel.mot.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Tue, 10 December 2002 21:56:31 +0800, fred wrote: > > Ok, I understand I can't run JFFS at only one sector. > > In fact, I have 64k space left for saving configuration data. > The size of a sector is 64k normally except the bottom sectors that are 8k, > 4k, 4k, 16k, 32k. > So you see, I have five sectors to run JFFS rather than one 64k sector. > Then, is it possible to run JFFS on these sectors? Yes, jffs (not jffs2) would be working on those sectors. But I fear that the partition code doesn't treat them seperately, so jffs will only see one sector and won't work. You should tweak the partition code or provide your own mapping driver to get it working. Something like that Jörn -- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein