unable to modify jffs2

Xavier DEBREUIL xde at inventel.fr
Tue Jun 12 13:21:33 EDT 2001


David Woodhouse a écrit :
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> dwmw2

It seems to work with a 4MB partition.

So, is it possible to define the size of a block inferior to the size of
the erase block ?
For example, erase size is 128KB and block size is 64KB.

Xavier




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