From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Vipin Malik <vipin.malik@daniel.com>
Cc: mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>, jffs-dev <jffs-dev@axis.com>
Subject: Re: Wear Leveling in JFFS2 NOT working!(?)
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 16:29:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30342.988903788@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AF178EB.89D9D094@daniel.com>
vipin.malik@daniel.com said:
> As hypothesized, the every few minutes cycling was what was screwing up
> the wear leveling algorithm. After the cycling stopped, all sectors
> showed up in the log and additionally each was cycled the same number
> of times!
Good :)
> In my opinion, there should be no need to fix the algorithm to
> accommodate the frequent cycling. Power going down every few minutes
> is (usually) NOT a normal mode of operation of an embedded system.
It's not normal, but given that it's quite easy for us to deal with it by
attempting to start in a different place each time, we might as well do so.
If it were more difficult, I'd be inclined to agree with you that it's not
worth the effort.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-03 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-30 22:26 Wear Leveling in JFFS2 NOT working!(?) Vipin Malik
2001-04-30 23:06 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-01 1:24 ` Tim Riker
2001-05-01 7:21 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-01 7:43 ` Tim Riker
2001-05-01 12:35 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-01 11:55 ` Jim Gettys
2001-05-01 12:29 ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-03 15:27 ` Vipin Malik
2001-05-03 15:29 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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2001-05-03 15:51 Chris Read
2001-05-03 16:09 ` David Woodhouse
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