Wanted - simple NOR Flash filing system
Charles Manning
manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz
Mon Apr 23 14:55:37 EDT 2007
On Monday 23 April 2007 23:34, MikeW wrote:
> For storing a few tens/hundreds of bytes of configuration data,
> in a handful of files (no subdirs), read access 99.99%,
> write/update once or twice in life of the system.
> Fits into single erase block ideally, so might need to hold data in RAM
> pending erase - if ever filled the block !
>
> Any suggestions ?
It is far too grand to call this a file system.
This is a bit more like a linear file store, or even more proimitive than
that.
I agree with the basic principle: if you don't need a full fs, then why use
one? You don't need a chainsaw to cut butter!
I have done stuff like this numerous times, but don't have any OSS code to
release.
The last time I did this, I used a pretty simple system that just used records
of the form:
Header byte
2 byte Length
Validity byte (0xFF not set up, 0x0F= in use, 0x03 = deleted
Name
data (length - (strlen(name) + 1 + 1 + 1))
With this mechanism you could only write a whole "file". No append/overwrite
etc. Just rewrite the whole record.
To delete a file you just set the validity byte accordingly.
I had two blocks and when the one got full I would do "garbage collection",
copying the valid "files" through to the new block. With one block you could
store the stuff in RAM.
-- CHarles
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