[UBIFS] Filesystem capacity

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 17:54 +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> Adam S. Turowski wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Can anyone explain differences in filesystem capacity between jffs2 and
> > ubifs?
> > Kernel 2.6.28
> > mtd3 29MB nor flash
> > mtd4 31MB nand flash
> > File created by dd-ing from /dev/urandom:
> > jffs2:
> > nor: 28361 kB
> > nand: 31200 kB
> > 
> > ubifs:
> > one volume created on mtd3
> > UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 0, name "root"
> > UBIFS: file system size:   28676736 bytes (28004 KiB, 27 MiB, 219 LEBs)
> > UBIFS: journal size:       1440384 bytes (1406 KiB, 1 MiB, 11 LEBs)
> > UBIFS: media format:       4 (latest is 4)
> > UBIFS: default compressor: LZO
> > UBIFS: reserved for root:  1417227 bytes (1384 KiB)
> > 
> > one volume created on mtd4
> > UBIFS: mounted UBI device 1, volume 0, name "data"
> > UBIFS: file system size:   31870976 bytes (31124 KiB, 30 MiB, 2008 LEBs)
> > UBIFS: journal size:       1603072 bytes (1565 KiB, 1 MiB, 101 LEBs)
> > UBIFS: media format:       4 (latest is 4)
> > UBIFS: default compressor: LZO
> > UBIFS: reserved for root:  1575089 bytes (1538 KiB)
> > 
> > nor: 26960 kB (I can live with that)
> > nand: 23552 kB (With that I cannot)
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> 
> It is because the LEB size is relatively small, and UBIFS does not
> fit data into the ends of eraseblocks the way JFFS2 does.  Your options
> are:

Well, UBIFS does try to squeeze small nodes to the ends of eraseblocks.
And I am not convinced it is worse than JFFS2 in this respect, unless
someone shows this with a test. Where did you get those numbers?
Did you try to measure how much you can really fit? Did you read this:
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_df_report
?

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)