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Subject: Re: Fast rollout process on jffs2?
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Robert Schwebel wrote:

> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 05:04:52PM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> 
>>Since I happened to have an image lying around I checked and it does
>>place the clean markers at the start of every erase zone.
> 
> 
> Hmm, sounds good, but that probably means that the jffs2 images have to
> be the full flash size (which is 32 MB in my case) compared to about 8
> MB at the moment? 

You could {g,b}zip it. The many 0xFF should compress quite nice... ;-)

--
Steven