From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from samar.sasken.com ([164.164.56.2]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 166VD4-0001My-00 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:06:30 +0000 Message-ID: <3BFBDB54.C02EBE28@sasken.com> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:50:28 +0000 From: Ashok M Padmanaban MIME-Version: 1.0 To: MTD for Linux , JFFS mailing list Subject: Flash Partitons Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi It will be very usefull if some one can give their comments. We are developing an embeded device (email device ) and planning to have CRAMFS for the root file system and JFFS2 for the user data. If CRAMFS is root fs, then i cant have system and user configuration files under this as they are updated according to requirement. One way is to have links to Jffs2 partition so that we can update these files. Or To have a separate partition (jffs2) for configuration files, which consumes a lot of flash space (as 5 sectors are reserved for GC). I feel first one is the better choice as we are very tight on FLASH space. But having the config files and user data in the same partition .......will it be safe? Like while manipulating the user data, is there any chance that config files may be corrupted...while GC. is running and the power goes down.......) Is there any other way of doing this. Thanks in advance Regards ashok