Suggestion needed to set proper journal size
Subodh Nijsure
snijsure at grid-net.com
Fri Apr 20 18:59:34 EDT 2012
Hello,
I know general implications of changing journal size on UBIFS -- bigger
the journal,
longer it may take to replay the journal, increasing time UBIFS takes to
mount. Smaller
journal means more re-writes to flash.
We created 2 partitions 100MB and 45MB and we see that by default
mkfs.ubifs is reserving 8MB for journal.
UBIFS: file system size: 101834752 bytes (99448 KiB, 97 MiB, 802 LEBs)
UBIFS: journal size: 9023488 bytes (8812 KiB, 8 MiB, 72 LEBs)
UBIFS: file system size: 47996928 bytes (46872 KiB, 45 MiB, 378 LEBs)
UBIFS: journal size: 9023488 bytes (8812 KiB, 8 MiB, 72 LEBs)
I know I can specify size of journal with -j option.
Should the journal size be scaled in some proportion of size of UBIFS
partition?
Should the journal size depend on how often you expect file-system to be
updated?
Has anyone done experiments with setting really small (1MB/2MB) journal
size?
What side effects is one likely to encounter if the journal size is too
small.
fwiw in my use case, file-system doesn't get updated that often, perhaps
2K data in about 4 files once a week.
-Subodh
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