RO jffs2 implementation for bootloader

[Joakim Tjernlund]

On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 13:53 +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hi Matthieu,
> 
> On Friday 04 May 2007 11:55, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 08:40 +0000, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> > >> I need to mount a jffs2 partition in a bootloader. I tried u-boot that
> > >> support jffs2, but it is very slow (2 minutes for mounting a 64MB
> > >> partition). Do you know if there are other (fast) implemenation of jffs2
> > >> suitable for a bootloader ?
> > >
> > > Not sure about any existing "fast" implementation, but mounting a JFFS2
> > > partition is about scanning whole partition. You may optimize some
> > > thing, but you have to scan anyway.
> >
> > Well u-boot implementation is very slow. For 64MB partition : 2 minutes
> > for u-boot
> 
> This really is slow. 64MB isn't that big and shouldn't take that long to 
> mount.
> 
> > and 11 s for linux (3s with summary). 
> 
> So it can be done better.
> 
> Did you think about improving the performance in U-Boot? If so, please let's 
> move this discussion to the u-boot-users mailing list.

Someone sent a patch a while ago to this list(I think) which had
significant improvemets to JFFS2 load time.

 jocke