First access to mounted jffs2 partition is slow
Will Wagner
will_wagner at carallon.com
Tue Feb 12 06:33:33 EST 2008
Hello,
I have an ARM11 system with a JFFS2 partition in NAND flash. It works
but the first time it is accessed after mounting it can be very slow.
These are the steps I am performing:
# flash_eraseall /dev/mtd4
Erasing 128 Kibyte @ 5fe0000 -- 99 % complete.
# time mount /dev/mtdblock4 /flash -t jffs2
real 0m 1.25s
user 0m 0.01s
sys 0m 0.13s
# time ls flash - with an empty filsystem, this takes no time
real 0m 0.00s
user 0m 0.01s
sys 0m 0.00s
# cp /sdcard/bigfile flash/ - bigfile is ~8MB
# umount /flash
# time mount /dev/mtdblock4 /flash -t jffs2
real 0m 2.63s
user 0m 0.01s
sys 0m 0.50s
# time ls flash - first time we do this it takes a long time
bigfile
real 0m 11.79s
user 0m 0.00s
sys 0m 0.18s
# time ls flash - subsequent reads are fast
bigfile
real 0m 0.00s
user 0m 0.01s
sys 0m 0.00s
It was my understanding that the only slow step should be mounting the
partition when it checks the entire filesystem. Is that correct? Is it
normal that the first file operation on the partition is slow and then
all others are fast? That the mount is slow is not a problem but would
be good if we could make the first access faster even if it means the
mount must get slower.
This is using Linux 2.6.19.2 with uClibc 0.9.29, busybox 1.9.0 and
mtd-utils 1.1.0
Thanks,
Will.
--
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Will Wagner will_wagner at carallon.com
Senior Project Engineer Office Tel: +44 (0)20 7371 2032
Carallon Ltd, Studio G20, Shepherds Building, Rockley Rd, London W14 0DA
------------------------------------------------------------------------
More information about the linux-mtd
mailing list