unable to modify jffs2

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Jun 12 12:43:18 EDT 2001


xde at 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. 


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