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Subject: Re: JFFS2 garbage collector blocking for minutes after mount
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Ferenc Havasi wrote:
> Steven Scholz wrote:
> 
> 
>>Does writing "every relevant memory representation" significantly
>>increase umount time?
> 
> 
> It depends on many-many things. Just an example: with a 6M image (where
> there is a lot of small file) it costs 75K to write out.

So erasing and writing 2 64kB sectors on a normal NOR flash. Not much though. 
Compared with several seconds mount time ...

--
Steven