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Subject: Re: NAND write buffering
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> 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