Re: JFFS2 mount time

Jörn Engel
2004-01-13T18:47:16Z

On Tue, 13 January 2004 18:40:09 +0100, Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> >
> > But on nand it is not only possible, but also likely that flash size
> > is greater than ram size. Does your approach still work then?
>
> Obviously no. But maybe it's still cheaper to do the work in big chunks
> I don't know you need to actually do a test to see what happens. It's
> not so easy to see in advance what will happen. I thought for sure that
> it would be faster to only read what was needed but it was not, at least
> not on a 200 MHz ppc if you have an P4 3GHz the picture is quite
> different.

Could be, at least. As long as we don't know where the time is lost,
everything else remains guesswork.

Anyway, David's approach sounds quite sane to me.

Jörn

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