FTL and Endianity

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Jul 9 05:32:44 EDT 2001


keith_siders at toshibatv.com said:
>  So since I'm using big-endian MIPS, does this effect JFFS2? That is,
> does FTL stand for Flash Translation Layer, or some such thing?  

JFFS2 is host-endian. It shouldn't affect you at all. You don't need to use 
FTL, JFFS works directly on the flash.

If you're making your JFFS2 filesystem images on a little-endian box for 
use on your target, make sure you use the appropriate arguments to 
mkfs.jffs2 to make it do the byteswapping.

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