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 159rAu-0001Le-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:37:52 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <3B26459F.1F275CB1@inventel.fr> References: <3B26459F.1F275CB1@inventel.fr> <3B26429A.5686E897@inventel.fr> <3B2635B4.63D6D647@colubris.com> <3B260CB7.E1513BBD@inventel.fr> <3B25FEB8.A00FCE03@inventel.fr> <3B24EC1B.7F920021@inventel.fr> <991934470.27485.0.camel@timmy> <20010607114319.A23641@crystal.2d3d.co.za> <20010607110359.A22278@crystal.2d3d.co.za> <19468.991906514@redhat.com> <23825.991907052@redhat.com> <9968.991944081@redhat.com> <2667.992333648@redhat.com> <3B25DE97.D2041C9@inventel.fr> <3161.992348379@redhat.com> <5586.992349315@redhat.com> <3B261F73.BF7325E1@inventel.fr> <3B2632EA.B38B039C@inventel.fr> <1776.992360814@redhat.com> <7905.992363355@redhat.com> To: Xavier DEBREUIL Cc: Martin Gadbois , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: unable to modify jffs2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:43:18 +0100 Message-ID: <9954.992364198@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: xde@inventel.fr said: > the file I have written on my 2Meg partition was only 1.5Meg Sorry, I missed that. Too big. > So if you say that it needs at least 5 free blocks, it means that I > need 5 blocks of 128KB, so at least 650KB free!!! Is it necessary ? > In fact if this is true, a 2MB partition is to short... At the moment, yes. JFFS2 requires a _lot_ of slack space. Actually it's probably safe to cut that down to three. Nobody's yet proved that though - YMMV. Eventually I intend to cut it down to one or two and prove that it's safe. -- dwmw2