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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: Alex Pavloff <apavloff@eason.com>
Cc: "'Tobias Otto-Adamczak'" <toa@indakom.de>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: writing new BBRAM driver
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:12:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021217091227.GA11194@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D3AF5F134D627243993F2F2FC32EE4D229C4B0@mailman.eason.com>

On Mon, 16 December 2002 14:33:41 -0800, Alex Pavloff wrote:
> 
> Alright, one more question:  What should the erasesize be for BBRAM?
> Obviously I'm not worried about wear, so should it be zero or one or
> something else?

Depends. :-)
For jffs2, you need 5 free blocks for operation. But every used block
eats up ~150Byte roughly, depending on data and compression. Bigger
blocks eat memory, more blocks eat memory, minimum is somewhere in the
middle, you do the math.
For minix, fat, ext2/3 etc., this doesn't really matter. I'd pick 4k,
as that is pagesize on most machines, but even 1byte might work - with
lots of overhead.

Jörn

-- 
But this is not to say that the main benefit of Linux and other GPL
software is lower-cost. Control is the main benefit--cost is secondary.
-- Bruce Perens

  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-17  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-16 22:33 writing new BBRAM driver Alex Pavloff
2002-12-17  9:12 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2002-12-17  9:49 ` Tobias Otto-Adamczak
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-20  1:14 Alex Pavloff
2002-12-13 23:45 Alex Pavloff
2002-12-16 10:14 ` Tobias Otto-Adamczak
2002-12-16 12:54   ` Geoffroy Stevenne

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