From: ebiederman@lnxi.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Q: Filesystem choice..
Date: 25 Jan 2004 14:53:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u12jr8y4.fsf@maxwell.lnxi.com> (raw)
Currently I am examining the possibility of using a filesystem with
LinuxBIOS so that I may store parameters and kernels in the flash in a
more flexible manner.
The current flash chips I am working with are NOR flash from 512KiB to
4MiB. And they generally have a 64KiB erase size.
I have two flash blocks that are reserved for XIP code (the hw
initialization firmware) and the rest can be used for the filesystem.
So in the worst case I have 6 flash blocks to play with.
The old papers on jffs2 would make it unacceptable as it reserves
5 erase blocks. And I don't know if yaffs or yaffs2 is any better.
In addition boot time is important so it would be ideal if I did not
to read every byte of the ROM chip to initialize the filesystem.
Is there a filesystem that only reserves one erase block?
Does it look like I need to write my own solution?
Eric
next reply other threads:[~2004-01-25 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-25 21:53 Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2004-01-25 22:49 ` Q: Filesystem choice Jörn Engel
2004-01-26 6:42 ` David Woodhouse
2004-01-26 7:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-26 7:40 ` David Woodhouse
2004-01-26 8:34 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2004-01-26 8:38 ` David Woodhouse
2004-01-26 9:28 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2004-01-26 9:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-26 9:31 ` David Woodhouse
2004-01-26 16:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-01-26 15:32 ` Jörn Engel
2004-01-27 4:30 ` Charles Manning
2004-01-27 7:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
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