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From: Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin@egholm-nielsen.dk>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: JFFS2 garbage collector blocking for minutes after mount
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:08:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc5ckj$ldm$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42E634D0.6090300@inf.u-szeged.hu>

Ferenc Havasi wrote:
>>The garbage collection thread is also responsible for building up the
>>node tree for every inode after mounting, so that we know for sure which
>>nodes are valid and which are obsolete. On NAND flash we can't actually
>>mark nodes as obsolete.

> Martin, you may should try our Centralizes Summary (CS) patch. It stores
> every relevant memory representation at umount time, so at mount (if the
> previous unmount was a clean one) you need only to read it without any
> scanning and rebuilding.

Unfortunately, I have no (or almost no) clean umount's - the device will 
reboot due to power-failure...

But I'm still considering - just for the clean ones :-)

// Martin

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-26 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-20  9:03 JFFS2 garbage collector blocking for minutes after mount Martin Egholm Nielsen
2005-07-20 13:45 ` David Woodhouse
2005-07-20 14:12   ` Martin Egholm Nielsen
2005-07-20 14:19     ` David Woodhouse
2005-07-20 14:34       ` Martin Egholm Nielsen
2005-07-20 19:17         ` David Woodhouse
2005-07-21  9:23           ` Stephane Fillod
2005-07-22 14:47           ` Martin Egholm Nielsen
2005-07-23 15:07             ` David Woodhouse
2005-07-24 20:09               ` Martin Egholm Nielsen
2005-07-25  9:49                 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-07-25  9:58                   ` Martin Egholm Nielsen
2005-07-27  7:10                     ` Martin Egholm Nielsen
2005-07-26 13:04   ` Ferenc Havasi
2005-07-26 13:06     ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-07-26 13:16       ` Ferenc Havasi
2005-07-26 13:08     ` Martin Egholm Nielsen [this message]
2005-07-26 13:14     ` Steven Scholz
2005-07-26 14:05       ` Ferenc Havasi
2005-07-26 14:06         ` Steven Scholz

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