safe flash filesystem
Abraham vd Merwe
abraham at 2d3d.co.za
Fri Jun 22 04:22:38 EDT 2001
Hi Russ!
> If its just a config file, why make all this so complicated?
>
> struct node {
>
> u32 magic;
> char valid;
> u32 version;
> u32 data_crc;
> u32 hdr_crc;
> char data[DATA_SIZE];
> };
Yes, this is something in the lines I was thinking of. But what complicates
things is if you start taking things like avoiding damaged blocks into
account, wear levelling (this is fairly easy to solve) and keeping the flash
unfragmented.
--
Regards
Abraham
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-- Jack Kerouac
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