how to behave on jffs2

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <294FD9D3403A0340BDAC38E48DCEFFDC935788 at RES-EXCH> you wrote:
> 
> 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?

Yes - given the age of MTD code you probably have in this old kernel.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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