From: Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara <carlos@embedded.cl>
To: Lokesh Kumar <kumar.lokesh@wrx-us.com>
Cc: "'linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org'" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: how to behave on jffs2
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:56:03 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501121256.03461.carlos@embedded.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <294FD9D3403A0340BDAC38E48DCEFFDC935788@RES-EXCH>
> Hi All,
>
Hi,
> I have an embedded Linux (kernel 2.4.18) board at 50MHz, with jffs2 16MB
> flash. My system creates small files of 700 bytes each and is required to
> create ~3000 of such files. I see that when there are 1000 files, the
> system takes 3 minutes or so to mount this partition and then another 3 to
> do "ls -l". When there are 3000 files, the system takes 10 minutes each for
> mount and "ls -l".
>
Why not to create a ramdisk and mount it on the fly?
Only when you modify the ramdisk you save it to the flash, instead of been
working directly with flash memory. You can save a lot of time by doing this.
Cheers!
--
Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara
carlos@embedded.cl
http://www.embedded.cl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-12 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-12 15:50 how to behave on jffs2 Lokesh Kumar
2005-01-12 15:56 ` Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara [this message]
2005-01-12 16:22 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-01-12 16:48 ` Wolfgang Denk
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