Disadvantage of using yaffs checkpointing ?

[Charles Manning]

On Tuesday 02 March 2010 15:01:08 Shivdas Gujare wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am very new to mtd & yaffs and working on boottime optimization and
> found that yaffs checkpointing helps to mount
> yaffs2 very quickly. I tried it, and was able to save almost 4sec for
> 128MB partitioned nand.
>
> Since everything looks very good If I use yaffs checkpointing feature
> but have a doubt, are there any disadvantage of using check-pointing
> by default in final product?
>
> I understood that, check-pointing only disables boot time nand block
> scanning & marking it bad if found,
> and takes "system snapshot" while using "umount /dev/mtdblockN" which
> it use in next boot.
> So, If I decided to use "checkpointing" with "umount" while powering
> off the device in final product,
> are there going to be any problems I will face avoiding block scanning?
>
> Thanks lot for any help.
>

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-- Charles