JFFS2 access delay

Artem B. Bityuckiy dedekind at infradead.org
Tue May 24 10:13:25 EDT 2005


> Hello
> Everything seems to be fine. But if i unmount and remount the JFFS2
> partition, the first "ls" to the JFFS2 takes quite some time:
...
> 
> During this delay, "jffs2_gcd_mtd1" is consuming a large amount of CPU
> time but the rest of the system seems to be well.
This is normal JFFS2 behaviour (unfortunately). Just after mount JFFS2
starts checking process which consumes resources.

> Does this ring a bell? Any idea how to cure this behaviour?
No. This isn't a bug, this is feature
(http://www.cbttape.org/funny/bug3.jpg).

What is the size of your flash?

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





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