Re: jffs2: Too few erase blocks (1)

[Dzuy Nguyen <dzuy@infinity-studios.com>]

I think I'll just use ext2.  ext2 doesn't mind small partition.  Writing
to it
should work the same as dd.

Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009, Dzuy Nguyen wrote:
>
>   
>> Thanks, Ricard.  I didn't realize that jffs2 is not suitable for a small
>> partition.  Yes,
>> 64K is all I can afford.  I suppose I can dd the file, but doesn't that
>> provide no wear
>> leveling feature that jffs2 does?
>>     
>
> No. But with one eraseblock you can't get much wear levelling anyway.
>
> It might not be too difficult to write an application that appends 
> new data to existing data to the partition, erasing the whole block when 
> it fills up and write the latest. Then you need something that will search 
> for the latest version of the file. Something that jffs2 does, but on a 
> smaller scale, acceptable for your application.
>
> /Ricard
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