From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [64.244.22.242] (helo=mail.seranoa.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16WhdZ-0007Q5-00 for ; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 17:38:09 +0000 Received: from seranoa.com (IDENT:andrew.dixon@[172.16.1.202]) by mail.seranoa.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g11Hxss28527 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:59:54 -0500 Message-ID: <3C5AD45D.9B6EBA1F@seranoa.com> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:46:05 -0500 From: Andrew Dixon MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: Space Loss in JFFS on an EST-SBC8260 References: 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: Scott Ikenaga wrote: > > We are using JFFS on EST-SBC8260. The problem we are facing now is that > the space can't be reclaimed after files being deleted. I don't believe that space should be reclaimed right away. You only get space back after the garbage collector has been through and cleaned up the flash. (The preceding is mostly a guess. You should get independent conformation.) So we are > running out of space as shown by "du". What's your kernel configuration? > > Questions: > (1)Is this a known problem? If so, is there a fix? I haven't seen it before. > (2)Could this contribute to another problem where the system becomes > very sluggish? It doesn't seem very likely to me but it's hard to tell without knowing what the configuration of your system is. You could try running off of an NFS root filesystem (if that's an option) and see if you performance is better. -- Andrew Dixon Software Engineer Seranoa Networks 978.897.3434 x231