how to properly calculate max-leb-cnt and vol_size for ubifs
twebb
taliaferro62 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 21 11:00:21 EST 2009
>>
>> I'm using ubifs for the first time and am confused about how to
>> calculate two parameters:
>>
>> "max-leb-cnt" for mkfs.ubifs
>> "vol_size" for ubinize cfg file
>>
>> How should "max-leb-cnt" be calculated? In the examples, how is "-c
>> 2047" determined? Should the max-leb-cnt calculation somehow include
>> the overhead calculated per the ubifs documentation page? Should the
>> reserved PEBs (1% default for NAND flash) be somehow taken into
>> account?
>>
>> How should "vol_size" be calculated? Is it simply max-leb-cnt *
>> LEB_size? Should overhead somehow be included in this calculation
>> also?
>
> Have you read:
>
> http://linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_max_leb_cnt
>
> http://linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubi.html#L_ubi_mkimg
>
> http://linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html#L_autoresize
>
>
I have, and I'm still pretty confused. I just posted some additional
questions I'm hoping perhaps you or someone else may be able to help
with.
Thanks,
twebb
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