From: Steven Scholz <steven.scholz@imc-berlin.de>
Cc: MTD <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Changing the number of JFFS2 erasblocks?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 15:10:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40754F47.9060404@imc-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404081458.56018.tglx@linutronix.de>
Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>>Could I hardcode the number of eraseblocks to 1 in my new (but still old
>>>2.4.20) kernel? Where is it defined?
>>>And what happens to my root fs which is JFFS2 when I change that?
>>
>>Is it enough and ok to just change the
>>
>>/* Number of free blocks there must be before we... */
>>#define JFFS2_RESERVED_BLOCKS_BASE 3
>
> You can do this, but it will break and it will break your root jffs2 too, as
> there is no way to have this per partition...
:-(
> 320K is not really useful for a filesystem IMHO.
> What do you want to do with it ?
We need some place to store a few configuration files (ca. 50KB compressed
each) for our application. These 320KB are unused so I thought we could use
it for this dedicated purpose instead of wasting space (and poluting) on our
root fs...
Steven
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-08 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-08 12:38 Changing the number of JFFS2 erasblocks? Steven Scholz
2004-04-08 12:54 ` Steven Scholz
2004-04-08 12:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-04-08 13:10 ` Steven Scholz [this message]
2004-04-08 13:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2004-04-08 16:45 ` Steven Scholz
2004-04-08 14:45 ` Jörn Engel
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