From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 15oVVP-0002SY-00 for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2001 20:47:03 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: dennis noermann Cc: Larry Doolittle , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: JFFS2_RESERVED_BLOCKS_* Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 20:56:03 +0100 Message-ID: <5927.1002052563@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: dennis.noermann@noernet.de said: > for an 640kb partition on 2*intelF320 (8MB) so 128 kb are wastet , it > is working fine , till i am copying more than the 512kb free space in > the partition , then deleting doesnt work > i think there is only 1 littel mistake in my config , but i was to > lazy to figger out the problem JFFS2_RESERVED_BLOCKS_DELETION has to > be set to 0 i think , i will try it next time i have time :) That sounds like a reasonable assessment, and it's good news that it seems to work. However, I believe there are one or two corner cases in the garbage collection code, which should almost never actually get triggered, in which it's not quite sufficient. So I'm unhappy about reducing it in the general case until I can prove that it's safe. -- dwmw2