Testing JFFS2 using mtdram

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Mon Aug 22 05:44:33 EDT 2005


On Mon, 22 August 2005 12:58:25 +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> 
> Albeit you cannot emulate > 128 MB flashes (just because 128 MB is the 
> vmalloc()'s limit). This may be fixed, I just did not bother.

I did that for ramtd.  Allocate an array of pointers and then lazily
allocate memory for those pointers.  Moves the limit to 128G on i386.
For even bigger flashes, a 2-3 level tree would work, but I rarely
need more than a gig.

Jörn

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