From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bavaria.muenchen.pop.de ([195.30.254.66] helo=fallback.pop.de ident=mail) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 17jldI-0002Ho-00 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:04:09 +0100 Received: from mail.jena.pop.de ([195.222.197.3]) by fallback.pop.de with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17jld8-0001yP-00 for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:04:02 +0200 Received: from goepel2.jena.provi.de (goepel2.jena.provi.de [195.222.197.91]) by mail.jena.pop.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01374 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:03:21 +0200 Received: from goepel.com (goepel109.goepel [172.16.1.109]) by goepel2.jena.provi.de (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id g7RJ3F221829 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:03:15 +0200 Message-ID: <3D6BCCFD.4090707@goepel.com> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:03:25 +0200 From: Michael Palme MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: flash file system for production use Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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: hello... i've got a strongarm system with 32mb intel strata flash. i need a mechanism for storing configuration files etc in the flashes. for this purpose 20mb of the flashes are free. the performance/ stability thing is very important for me. i cant wait 10 secs fot mounting/ checking etc. i' ve tried jffs2 from CVS and it seems to be "fast" on a nearly empty flash partition, but i have no suggestion about what happens in hard production use, when the flash will be written over and over again and the wear leveling takes place. the device is never shutdown'ed in a clean way -- always hard power off... because i have 20megs free and only small information to store i think there is no need for a complex wear leveling mechanism but im not an expert. what the best solution fot my problems??? please give some hints.... thanks in advance ... Michael Palme -- ------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Michael Palme software engineer Goepel electronic GmbH mailto: m.palme@goepel.com phone: +493641689682 fax: +493641689644 inet: http://www.goepel.com -------------------------------