From: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>,
"Johnson, Charles F" <charles.f.johnson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: JFFS2 Support for Large Flash Designs
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:09:23 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703072009.23430.manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45EE6012.1040506@ru.mvista.com>
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 19:47, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> Johnson, Charles F wrote:
> >My understanding is that JFFS2 does not support flash file systems
> >larger than 4GB. What would be the issues with supporting more than 4GB
> >of NAND flash.
>
> Excuse me for the stupid (probably) question, but still: are you sure
> you want to use a single 4GB partition for read/write operations??
I think that for many applications a large partition is preferable to many
small ones.
If you think of something simple like an MP3 player or such, the user does not
want to split up their data according to partitions. Partitions just provide
an artificial constraint that is confusing to many people.
-- Charles
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-07 7:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-06 21:34 JFFS2 Support for Large Flash Designs Johnson, Charles F
2007-03-07 1:36 ` Josh Boyer
2007-03-07 1:38 ` Johnson, Charles F
2007-03-07 1:47 ` Josh Boyer
2007-03-07 11:04 ` Jörn Engel
2007-03-07 6:47 ` Vitaly Wool
2007-03-07 7:09 ` Charles Manning [this message]
[not found] <mailman.311.1173272465.2275.linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
2007-03-07 17:23 ` ian
2007-03-07 17:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 17:54 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-03-07 18:17 ` ian
2007-03-07 18:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-07 18:07 ` Jörn Engel
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