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From: "George G. Davis" <gdavis@mvista.com>
To: Siddharth Choudhuri <choudhri@cs.tamu.edu>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: jffs2 vs. ext3
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:44:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EE75C78.4020408@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0306111054540.7463-100000@unix.cs.tamu.edu>



Siddharth Choudhuri wrote:
> I am trying jffs2 and ext3 on a 3MB Intel NOR flash. I have a piece of
> code in function part_write (mtdpart.c) that outputs the size in bytes and pid
> of the process (current) sending write requests.
> 
> With ext3, no matter how many bytes are written (by an application/user
> level program), the part_write function always gets a request that is
> multiple of 128K (131072 bytes). This does not happen with jffs2 though.
> Also, with ext3, the process is always mtdblockd, whereas with jffs2 the
> process sending the request is the actual user/application process.
> 
> Any ideas why it happens ?

... also with ext3, you'll have a brick(TM) pretty soon too. ; )
Hint: ext3 doesn't not do flash wear levelling. You'll burn out
your flash chips pretty soon.

--
Regards,
George

> 
> thanks in advance,
> -siddharth
> 
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-11 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-11 16:03 jffs2 vs. ext3 Siddharth Choudhuri
2003-06-11 16:25 ` David Woodhouse
2003-06-12 16:34   ` Siddharth Choudhuri
2003-06-11 16:44 ` George G. Davis [this message]

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