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From: David Jander <david.jander@protonic.nl>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Mounting large JFFS2 causes other process to stop running!
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 08:44:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509050845.00348.david.jander@protonic.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1125888149.24477.32.camel@Vigor4>

On Monday 05 September 2005 04:42, Benny Chen wrote:
> Hi there,
> I have this problem, where when I mount a large JFFS2 partition (5M),
> nothing else seems to be running.  The jffs2 routines seems to have the
> processor all for itself.

What version of mtd/kernel are you using and on what hardware?

> I am aware that JFFS2 takes a long time to mount large partitions. But
> to have no process running during the mount duration is a little funny.

This sounds indeed funny.... almost tragic.
I have seen several minute-long stalls due to either mounting or GC, but all 
processes that are not dependant on that partition keep running nicely.
The only processes that suffer from such a thing are those that want to access 
the partition immediately, so mounting the root partition in rw-mode for 
example, is something to avoid because any given day GC can kick in right 
after mount, and then booting up can take veeery looong.

Greetings,

-- 
David Jander
Protonic Holland.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-05  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-05  2:42 Mounting large JFFS2 causes other process to stop running! Benny Chen
2005-09-05  6:44 ` David Jander [this message]
     [not found]   ` <ad39a30f05090501553458af6e@mail.gmail.com>
2005-09-05 11:46     ` David Jander
2005-09-06  5:52       ` Benny Chen
2005-09-06  6:45         ` David Woodhouse

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