JFFS2 - speed up while booting

Ricard Wanderlof ricard.wanderlof at axis.com
Tue Jan 5 03:06:08 EST 2010


On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, linux newbie wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using linux version (linux.2.6.31) on my embedded ARM based target.
>
> We are using JFFS2 filesystem to read/write data to NAND flash
> (32MBytes) and our root file system resides in it.
>
> It takes long time during kernel booting, if we have root file system
> in NAND, but its very fast if we place our file system in SDRAM.
>
> Is there any way to speed up the booting process?
>
> Eagerly waiting for your valuable suggestion.

Is it slow during every boot or just the first after you've written your 
file system image to the flash?

/Ricard
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