Re: JFFS2 on 8MB Flash-Chip conneted to MPC850 works extremly slo w:(

David Woodhouse
2001-09-05T10:00:58Z

jonas.holmberg@axis.com said:
> My partition is fairly small so the mount time is OK right now, but I
> will also be using a larger partition (about 3MB) later. Is anybody
> working on this checkpointing thing? Could you explain the concept
> briefly?

Currently we have to scan the whole thing on startup because we know
nothing about its state. By occasionally writing a checkpoint - a brain
dump of the jffs2 code's internal state, we can speed up the mount.

You'd only ever write a checkpoint at the beginning of an erase block.
The mount code would look at the beginning of each block, and would note
the most recent checkpoint. It can suck in the state from that checkpoint
and then go on to read every node in the blocks which were written _after_
that checkpoint.

> Is it possible to "hide" a bootloader at the beginning of a jffs2
> partition so that jffs2 ignores it (when mounting read-only) and still
> be able to upgrade the whole partition (bootloader + jffs2 fs) using
> the mtd character device?

Not really. Why not just upgrade bootloader and jffs2 fs using two separate
character devices?

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