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From: Bernhard Priewasser <priewasser@gmail.com>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: MTD mailing list <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: NAND write buffering
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:12:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <438CA82F.50600@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <625fc13d0511291107t3495a41byae11ba1832657291@mail.gmail.com>

> The assumptions seem to be fine.  The usage case you described is
> probably the worst case for JFFS2 though.  Lots of small writes
> generates lots of data nodes, which in turn increases mount time and
> wastes space.  EBS helps with the mount time issue, but the flash
> space consumption is larger than it probably needs to be.  But as you
> correctly pointed out, there is nothing you can do about that if you
> _must_ have it be on flash after every write.

Hehe... I'd say: rather use the flash unefficiently (sizeof(header) >> 
sizueof(data)) than loose data!

Bernhard

  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-29 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <438C7B0C.5040001@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <438C94BD.8020300@inf.u-szeged.hu>
2005-11-29 18:07   ` NAND write buffering Bernhard Priewasser
2005-11-29 19:07     ` Josh Boyer
2005-11-29 19:12       ` Bernhard Priewasser [this message]
2005-11-30  9:08         ` Jörn Engel
2005-12-12 14:39     ` Bernhard Priewasser
2005-12-12 15:37       ` Josh Boyer

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