Performance of wear-levelling in JFFS2.

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Thu Nov 17 08:13:57 EST 2005


On Thu, 17 November 2005 13:27:20 +0200, David Jander wrote:
> 
> I am wondering about how good wear-levelling really is in JFFS2. I have made 
> an experiment which ended with a "MTD do_write_buffer(): software timeout", 
> which really looks like flash is taking too long to write data because of it 
> beeing near end of life.

Nice experiment, although "really looks like" is not exactly a
comparable result.  How about changing one of the ram test drivers to
count the number of erases per block, let the experiment run for a
while and then print those number?

Jörn

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