jffs_file_write
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Jul 25 06:01:40 EDT 2000
finn at axis.com said:
> I cannot understand that. How much time are we talking about? How
> large is the flash? How long does an erase take? One garbage collect
> cannot consume more time than (sectors on flash * number of sectors)
> time I think.
After making a few copies of /usr and /lib, then deleting them, I saw it
take an hour and a half with a 16Mb flash which was about half-full.
Now I've implemented buffer writes on chips which support it, that should be
down to ten minutes. I'm sure the verbose logging over the serial port
doesn't help :)
But it's still done in process context, and writes of new nodes have to
wait while it's happening. Shifting that into its own kernel thread would
be nice, and would also allow us to merge writes.
I'm far more concerned by the thing getting corrupted when I abruptly
remove power - I'm about to see if I can reproduce it with the patches you
committed just before I left - do you have any ideas from the log I posted
on the 17th of July?
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