jffs2 sumtool bug ?

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed May 23 06:55:11 EDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 10:10 +0200, Matthieu CASTET wrote:
> PS : about summary, could the sumtool change the order of the nodes to 
> avoid to waste too much space. For example if the eraseblock is 16KB and 
> we have 4 nodes of 4KB. Sumtool will put in the first eraseblock 3 
> nodes, 4KB will be wasted for the sumary node. In this wasted 4KB, we 
> could have put smaller nodes.

Theoretically, yes. But there's easier things to do first. We could
halve the size of the summary node itself, for example.

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dwmw2





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