No free space left for GC

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 04:46, 小明 wrote:
> in our own old nand flash system
> we always keep 1 nand-flash-block for garbage collection in block device
> driver
> (8k/8MB,16k/64MB)
> it never endless gc, but when diskfull,the speed is really slow
> finally we reserved more space(512k) for gc to  make gc faster
> those reversed space is not showed in fs layer
> we report (real size-reserved space) to fs layer
> and we use minix as fs layer
> (we do  bad block management, wear leveling, error correction,
> all in block device driver not in fs layer)
> recently, we need compression , so we try jffs2:)
> i think the design of jffs2 is also better than our old one:)
1. Please keep answers to mailinglist posting on the list. Thanks.

2. The endless gc, which used up all blocks, is fixed now. I will do
some more tests and put a final version into CVS today.

-- 
Thomas 
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