smallest jffs2 file system possible

Artem B. Bityuckiy dedekind at infradead.org
Thu May 5 07:05:43 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 18:38 -0700, Kylo Ginsberg wrote:
> Empirically I've determined that this minimum size is effectively 5 *
> N, where N is the physical erase block size of the underlying flash
> part.  Is this correct?  Are there any workaround or patches to enable
> building a smaller file system?  Is a different f/s recommended for
> such an application (must be r/w, don't care about compression
> particularly).
> 
JFFS2 always reserves several blocks for GC. So I doubt you can create
smaller FS without hacking.

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.





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