jffs2_scan_medium effor

Kári Davíðsson kd at flaga.is
Thu Jun 21 13:33:43 EDT 2001


Maybe there is a way to mark the sectors were the bootmonitor resides as

"burnt out" or reserved so that the jffs2 does not attempt to use the.

Then in theory you could just make one partition of the whole flash with
few "bad" sectors that are not used by the jffs2....

Just an idea.....

K.D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederic Giasson [mailto:fgiasson at mediatrix.com]
> Sent: 21. júní 2001 17:03
> To: 'Nicolas Pitre'; Frederic Giasson
> Cc: Kári Davíðsson; MTD mailing list (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: jffs2_scan_medium effor
> 
> 
> Because my boot monitor is straigth in the middle of my flash 
> and I can't
> move it for an hardware reason.
> 
> Frédéric Giasson
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicolas Pitre [mailto:nico at cam.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:07 PM
> To: Frederic Giasson
> Cc: 'Kári Davíðsson'; MTD mailing list (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: jffs2_scan_medium effor
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Frederic Giasson wrote:
> 
> > Thank you Kari for your help.
> >
> > 	I tried partionning as you suggested, but I loose a lot of space
> > because I have two seperate partitions on which I mount 
> JFFS2.  It takes
> the
> > same space ( roughly 324 KB ) for its own usage per 
> partition.  Therefore,
> I
> > can't afford the partitioning method to map my flash 
> because I was already
> > tight on it with 324K taken by JFFS2.
> 
> Why can't you make only a single JFFS2 partition out of the two you
> currently made?
> 
> 
> Nicolas
> 




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