writing to jffs2 is so slow?

[Xiaogeng (Shawn) Jin]

>>>Maybe it's possible to do a format command that creates a disk that is
>>>empty and prevents the jffs2 code to reformat every block.
>>
>>A format command? What command formats MTD devices (my flash is NOR)? 
>>Thanks.
> 
> Try eraseall from the utils.
> With that, jffs2 just writes the erase markers to flash, 12 bytes per
> erase block.

Well, that's just what I did. Then making a first directory takes 2 minutes.

- Shawn.