how to behave on jffs2

[Artem B. Bityuckiy]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Lokesh Kumar wrote:

This is feature of JFFS2. It works slow with directories which have lots 
of files. If you want to fix it, I may try to take you some hints :-)


> Hi All,
> 
> I have an embedded Linux (kernel 2.4.18) board at 50MHz, with jffs2 16MB
> flash. My system creates small files of 700 bytes each and is required to
> create ~3000 of such files. I see that when there are 1000 files, the system
> takes 3 minutes or so to mount this partition and then another 3 to do "ls
> -l". When there are 3000 files, the system takes 10 minutes each for mount
> and "ls -l". 
> 
> Is that expected behaviour?
> 
> Lokesh Kumar
> 
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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.