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From: Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Do not understand use of oobfree
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:46:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C72721.90302@nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <872380.68552.qm@web58702.mail.re1.yahoo.com>

ext Philip Rakity wrote:
> b) the oobfree area is specified as a {offset, length) pair.  When this
> gets to say the jffs2 file system what does it see.  For example
> 	.oobfree = { {8, 8} }

8 free bytes at offset 8

> 
> it would see 8 bytes starting at offset 8 OR 8 bytes starting at offset
> 0 and the mtd driver would do the mapping.
> 
> more complex example
> 	.oobfree = { {3, 2}, {6, 2} }
> 
> would jffs2 see 4 bytes at offset 0. or 2 sets of data at offset 3 and
> offset 6.

2 free bytes at offset 3
2 free bytes at offset 6

Note that the total free bytes for a page is stored in oobavail.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-05 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-05  3:58 Do not understand use of oobfree Philip Rakity
2007-02-05  8:22 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-05  9:14   ` Artem Bityutskiy
2007-02-06 16:10   ` Philip Rakity
2007-02-05 12:46 ` Adrian Hunter [this message]

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